[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Evan Schoenberg]

Background of the thread: Ryan LaMothe emailed feedback expressing a  
desire to become involved in making Adium for iPhone.

Now that it's clear that GPL apps can be distributed in the App Store,  
there should be no legal hurdles to such a project existing. The  
logistics are the least of our worries, but suffice it to say that we  
can without a problem create an 'Adium' iPhone Developer account and  
grant all who would need it access to iTunes Connect and provisioning/ 
publishing facilities.

Ryan LaMothe wrote:
> Hello, my name is Ryan LaMothe and I am a full-time lead software  
> development engineer and a huge OS X, iPhone and Adium fan.  While I  
> mostly develop JEE applications for Fortune 500 and government, I  
> originally cut my teeth in Objective-C using Eiffel for NextStep and  
> I've been wanting to get involved with a major OS X and/or iPhone  
> development project for some time now.  Which leads me to the  
> following questions:
>
> 1.  I visited http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AdiumForiPhone and read  
> about the issues and hurdles surrounding a development project such  
> as Adium for iPhone.
> 2.  I would like to know how I can get involved in such a project,  
> specifically as a professional developer, who is interested in  
> taking a serious look at the code.
> 3.  I do not have a ton of time on a daily basis to work on the  
> code, as I have regular full-time employment, but I am interested in  
> putting in as much time as I could depending on the scope of work  
> required.

As Colin mentioned on feedback at adiumx.com, the first barrier to  
overcome is to have libpurple compiled and loading on the iPhone. I  
expect this will require some cross-compilation skills, especially to  
get all its dependencies up and running, but I really don't know.  If  
someone out there is interested in the design of of Adium for iPhone,  
another first step would be mockups of what it would mean to have such  
a program - what will be bring to the table which would be Adiumesque  
and do things that, say, AIM for iPhone doesn't, besides just the  
multiprotocol aspect of using libpurple?

Cheers,
Evan

On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> Other than what Eric said, I would suggest getting libpurple  
> compiling as a static library and linked into a test app that builds  
> for ARM as a first step.


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