Project Better Clojure/Android integration

[Devang Shah]

Hello

I am a master's student and would like to contribute to the clojure/android platform. I found this project http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Project+Ideas#ProjectIdeas-BetterClojureAndroidintegration on the project ideas site for GSoC 2015. I was hoping to submit the project proposal, however could not submit the proposal. I was wondering, if I still take up the project, will anyone be able to mentor me (very little time, by answering my questions on google groups). I checked the GSoC 2015 website and this is not something that's done by any student for GSoC 15.

I also would like to take this project as my master's project, if that's OK to do so.

I know Clojure (decent), Android(pretty good), Leiningen(used it for Clojure programming) and Gradle (beginner).

Would it be possible to do it in around 3 months? Can someone help me move forward in this forum, I would really like to contribute (not just for graduation project).

Thank you.
Devang

[Alexander Yakushev]

Hello Devang,

I'm glad you are interested in Clojure-Android. The proposal you linked to is about creating a Gradle-based plugin for building CoA projects. The first steps in making the plugin were already made by Daniel Solano Gómez[1]. However, with the latest changes to lein-droid[2] this project is less relevant. Lein-droid caught up with the features of Android Gradle build tool, while still having an unquestionable benefit of being written in Clojure (better integration with Clojure ecosystem), and arguably written better and cleaner.

You should come over to #clojure-android IRC channel and we can talk about what Clojure-Android related project you can do for three month. Hoping to see you there!

Best regards,

Alex

[1] https://github.com/clojure-android/android-clojure-plugin

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure-android/aUdnB4X-D08