[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[George Armah]

Hi all,
Speaking as an Adium user (and possible Adium for iPhone contributor):


I don't carry my mac laptop with me all the time.
I already use Adium to organize my contacts / chat with them etc. on my
desktop Mac.
To me it would mean I when I was away from my Mac and had my iPod Touch in
hand (and some WiFi :) ); I would be able to seamlessly communicate with my
Adium contacts.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the other IM offerings for the iPhone
out there currently have as strong a desktop client base as Adium does. I
think that's one of the biggest reasons for possibly starting this project.

Thanks,
George.



On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:39 AM, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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