[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[David Smith]

There is a larger issue here in my mind. What does Adium for the  
iPhone actually mean? With push notification support coming "someday",  
I don't see how a local-only IM client on the phone can expect to  
succeed long term.

			David

On Jan 22, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> 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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