Let's help the project to go on!

[pietro14]

It's so sad to see gnucash-android abandoned...

The app was downloaded more than 100.000 times on the Play Store and more than 6500 users reviewed it, giving on average 4.2 stars.

Maybe @codinguser could give writing permissions to @slak44 or @JeanGarf who have contributed a lot in the last year, as it is here reported:

#882 (comment)

(the last commit was on Jun 8, 2021)

Independent improvements of @slak44 are here:
https://github.com/slak44/gnucash-android

Looking at old contributors, maybe @rivaldi8, @aint, @jorgeml are still interested to help?

I added gnucash-android to this list of projects in need of maintainers here:
pickhardt/maintainers-wanted#57 (comment)

Any other idea that could help? Lots of people use the app! Maybe we could help with donations as well.

[arozaqf]

it's license restricted missing original author. maybe gnucash desktop could help about license agreement?

[pietro14]

@arozaqf you may be right.

Maybe the developers of the GnuCash Developers organization who are maintaining Gnucash Desktop could help?
@jralls, @cstim, @gjanssens, and @fellen

[jralls]

Not sure what you're asking for. Changing the license for the current code requires permission from everyone listed in CONTRIBUTORS.md, but the license allows you to use a different license for your derivative work as long as you abide by the terms of the Apache license for the code in this repository.

[jralls]

@pietro14 You are being extremely rude. Please stop pinging everyone you think might ever have contributed something to GnuCash or GCfA.

[yarons]

Good luck with that, sorry that I can't help.

[jdavisp3]

I didn't even know there was an Android version of GnuCash 😄 That's pretty cool, but I sure don't have time to pick it up.

[jsled]

Pietro ***@***.***> writes:

And some more contributors of Gnucash Desktop who may be interested to help:

Don't do this. :P If I had the time and interest to be involved with GnuCash, I'd involved with GnuCash.

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-- …jsled https://asynchronous.org

[pnemonic78]

I wouldn’t mind managing the project, but we need a few things from the original owner(s): 1. Keystore passwords to sign the APK. 2. Permissions to publish the app in Play Store

[JeanGarf]

Hi everybody,

I'm very pleased to see that some people appreciate GnuCash for Android (as well as GnuCash)

I contributed few months ago to get a version fitting my needs and without bugs on Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
However, it seems that my enhancements don't work on some other devices (see #882).

I'm not a strong Android developer and don't know how to run UI Test.
I also don't have lot of time anymore to contribute again and therefore can't be a project manager.
However, I'm OK to help a little to get my contributions to work on other devices, but I need help to know how to do that.

Best regards,

[arozaqf]

a new effort to port gnucash
https://github.com/nicktylah/gnucash-mobile/

[jralls]

a new effort to port gnucash

No, the readme is pretty explicit that it's not a port of GnuCash. It's a mobile data-entry tool that creates CSVs that one GnuCash can import.

[gutierri]

The author has not been active for a long time. It can be a complicated task to retrieve data from existing publications. An alternative is to launch a "GnuCash 2" on the F-Droid.

We can create an organization and fork this project. It has good open PR to apply.

[jralls]

Please be sure to name your project something that makes it clear it's not a GnuCash port so that users won't be confused. GnuCash-Android-2 or GnuCash-for-Android-2 would be fine.