Android/BOINC development items

Ticket	Summary	Status	Component	Owner	Reporter	Priority
#1352	Properly render web content in BOINC Notices	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Major
#1353	UI feature: statistics / achievements / sharable	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Major
#1360	Stationary device mode: enable by default on stationary devices	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Major
#1378	don't truncate email addr auto-fill in Android, and error-check the field	new	Manager - Android	davea	davea	Major
#1343	Change Notice notification icon to make it recognizable	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Minor
#1346	Add preference: buffer size	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Minor
#1349	Make language a preference	new	Manager - Android	Jitender	Joachim	Minor
#1354	Manual RPC	new	Manager - Android	Joachim	Joachim	Minor

Some remaining development tasks. Please contact me (David Anderson) and post to boinc_dev if you want to help.

Feasability of GPU computation, e.g. LG Nexus 4's GPU Adreno320 supports openCL 1.2

Google seems to push RenderScript? over openCL support on Android...

Higher resolution project icons and slideshow images

Icons and slideshow images are not ideal for high resolution screens.

Statistics

e.g. run time, finished tasks, etc.

Badges / Achievements

• supplied by project and/or local based on statistics
• shareable on social media

Attach Wizard

Feedback indicates that users are not happy with having to register with every project separately.

Initial proposal of UI flow: ​https://www.fluidui.com/editor/live/preview/p_xuIwayLOet0gFoFlBHZJtpmbqnxF5Z7O.1394002154909

1. splash screen
2. if no project attached, prompt credential input. this screen can accommodate Google sing in later.
3. project selection. multiple choice. project info screen opens with (long) click on project
4. attaching. using previously supplied data. tries login, if fails, try registration. give users introduction/hints in the mean time.
5. successful. if no conflict.
6. conflict resolution. one screen for every project that returned "bad password" (account exists but password is wrong). give user a change to correct his data (name or email if not users account; password if user registered before with different password), only for this specific project.

Store user data to pre-populate fields in further attaches.

Concerns with initial proposal:

• Users that already have different accounts with various projects or prefer having separate id-password combinations with all project accounts

-> offer to supply login information separately for each project. add button to screen 2. possible to pre-populate name/email field from previous data.

• Storing the users password for further attaches raises concerns

-> add checkbox to screen 2 to opt-out -> or do not store password in general. require re-type if further attaches and later point in time.

• Conflict resolution needs to be adapted based whether project uses name or email as identifier

-> "uses_name" attribute allows distinction

• WCG does not allow registration on client. Treat separately.

-> prompt screen that forwards users to WCG homepage.

Notes

• We have been using icons supplied by WCG or found here: ​http://gentleface.com/free_icon_set.html