On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As you might be aware, there has been ongoing work on
a Commons
application for Android[1]. Hashar was awesome enough to set up automated
builds of it on Jenkins - you can download the latest from:
https://integration.mediawiki.org/nightly/mobile/android-commons/
Woohoo!
We haven't yet figured out how to automate signed builds for the iOS
version, but if you've got XCode installed on your Mac you can easily clone
the repo and build it locally to run in the simulator:
https://github.com/wikimedia/Commons-iOS
This runs on iOS 5 or later; currently only has a phone interface so on
iPad it shows in iPhone compatibility mode.
The UI is totally provisional, expect it to change!
Uploads of new photos and gallery photos (currently to
test2.wikipedia.org)
work, but note that there's currently a bug that causes upload of
screenshots from the gallery to fail. There's not much error checking so
expect silent failures for now. ;)
We've already got contributions from three volunteer folks -- Jaikumar did
the initial port of the API library to Objective-C after the Bangalore
DevCamp, and a couple other folks have submitted patches for the Commons
code. There's also some interest from a small group that started work on a
Commons uploader a couple months ago in joining forces and working on ours,
which should be very helpful.
Note that the iOS simulator doesn't hook up to the Mac's webcam, so you
can't take fresh photos unless you install on a device. To get photos into
the simulator's gallery, you can pull things up in Safari, long-press on
the images, and hit 'Save Image' in the popup menu.
-- brion