Cruiser open source

[devemux86]

I'm thinking if it's worth it to make Cruiser open source.

Is there any interest from the community and other developers?

More users can then contribute new features and improvements.

[DIrgi]

As I wrote in another tread where it originally popped up, I see myself very limited to dig deeper into a programming support.
I even think about how and when I could start participating in the Cruiser WIKI and place there some contributions where I was al least one of the guys initiating this request.

[bios4]

For me it is enough to do application coding during my daily job. 😞

Additionally, I have never written code for mobile apps and am currently not interested in getting into the subject.
I like to "contribute" in the way I'm currently doing here in Cruiser Discussions (and am still also interested in helping building up the Wiki!), but I'm not into getting a real Cruiser app coder/programmer at the moment...

[MotoUKRider]

I thought I had commented on this, but obviously not!

Having looked at the OSMand project, I find myself kind of overwhelmed with GIT this, PULL that, MANIFEST those etc. I'm none the wiser as to exactly what development environment I should use. I consider myself a reasonably fast learner but I find the prospect of staring at XML to "draw" a button on the screen rather unappealing!

There's an awful lot of scripting involved, and it's not for the faint-hearted (my recent efforts at a map theme for both Cruiser and BaseCamp have put the coffee maker through its paces). I looked at OpenMapTiles which had potential but it wasn't immediately obvious how I would connect a routing engine to it (I assume lots of Lat/Lon calls?).

I can picture the kind of app I'd write, I can probably draw some 8-bit mock-ups in MSPaint, but actually generating the GUI components, not even close! I like the idea of being able to open the project, make a relatively simple change and upload it for others to enjoy.

If anything, it makes you understand how much work goes into learning a language, debugging a new process and dealing with users' comments like: "can you move it to the left a bit?"... It's more likely that a developer would get into motorcycles than a rider wanting to learn how to code - the FB touring groups suggest that most prefer a paper list shoved in the tank bag 📜

Android Studio, Visual Studio, Flutter, something else? I don't want to find myself in motorcycle terms: trying to remove a wheel nut with a pair of tweezers, so what would somebody need on their (Windoze) computer to work on Cruiser?

[devemux86]

@MotoUKRider thanks for the comment. 👍

Only need Android and IDEA or Android Studio and open the project. All work automatically.
Similar implementation to the open source map libraries I'm developing: Mapsforge + VTM.

In addition to what you describe, developers have to deal with each new version of Android,
that changes (often greatly) how they work. 🙂

[MotoUKRider]

Well, that's encouraging 😀

I've done a lot with Arduino using C++ so I'm not totally against coding!