Re: [GSOC] Porting Zenmap to Android

[Michał Zieliński <michal () zielinscy org pl>]

I have missed that porting Zenmap to Qt would also require porting
Radialnet. So I have re-evaluated my proposal.

I will rewrite most of Zenmap functionality (except Radialnet) using
zenmapCore and PyQt while keeping Gtk version untouched. The app UI will be
targeted for smartphones and tablets, but will be also runnable on desktop,
so it could in future replace original Gtk Zenmap.

This might still seem to be too big task for GSoC, but keep in mind that
rewriting existing application is much easier than writing it from scratch.

What do you think of this? Is having two versions of GUI (Gtk and Qt based)
acceptable?

2015-03-05 16:20 GMT+01:00 Michał Zieliński <michal () zielinscy org pl>:

> I have only briefly skimmed Zenmap source, it seemed rather small (12k LOC
> in zenmapGUI). I'll look closer and see how much can be done during GSoC.
>
> 2015-03-05 16:12 GMT+01:00 Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>:
>
> > W dniu 05.03.2015 o 15:47, Michał Zieliński pisze:
> > > Hi everyone!
> > >
> > > I'm interested in submitting proposal based on idea "Nmap and Zenmap on
> > > Mobile Devices (Android and iOS)".
> > >
> > > As a first step, I would make Zenmap use PyQt instead of GTK. Then I
> > would
> > > use pyqtdeploy (or similar library) to create application package for
> > > Android. The application would optionally use Superuser to perform scans
> > > requiring elevated permissions on rooted devices.
> > >
> > > The same approach would work on iOS, thought I don't have any iOS
> > devices
> > > nor experience in porting for iOS.
> > >
> > > I'd be happy to hear what you think about this approach.
> > >
> > > P.S. I have quite a lot of experience porting applications to Android.
> > For
> > > example, I have ported Freeciv (
> > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.org.zielinscy.freeciv
> > ,
> > > https://github.com/zielmicha/freeciv-android), the mobile UI is
> > written in
> > > Python using SDL2, game logic is written in C.
> >
> > Here's Daniel Miller's opinion, as seen on #nmap:
> >
> > 15:57:20         d33tah $ bonsaiviking: i really like the idea of
> > porting zenmap to qt.
> > 15:59:37   bonsaiviking $ qt vs gtk seems like a holy war
> > 15:59:50   bonsaiviking $ I just know it would be a  massive project
> > 16:00:14   bonsaiviking $ because we then have to retool the windows and
> > os x installers
> > 16:00:39   bonsaiviking $ I'm not saying it couldn't be done, I just
> > don't feel motivated to be involved :)
> > 16:01:13         d33tah $ bonsaiviking: ability to port to android
> > sounds like a good argument, isn't it?
> > 16:01:31   bonsaiviking $ Yes, but I don't know all the tradeoffs
> > involved there.
> > 16:01:56   bonsaiviking $ Would it be efficient? How much more or less
> > work is involved either way?
> > 16:01:58         d33tah $ would you be more interested in a project
> > targeting only android, so you wouldn't need as much retooling?
> > 16:02:36         d33tah $ bonsaiviking: the way i understand it, there's
> > no way to run gtk apps on android.
> > 16:02:52   bonsaiviking $ Maybe, but still we'd have to do the analysis.
> > Jumping in without considering alternatives and ramifications is asking
> > for trouble.
>
>
> --
> Michał Zieliński
> http://www.zielm.com | @zielmicha <http://github.com/zielmicha>



-- 
Michał Zieliński
http://www.zielm.com | @zielmicha <http://github.com/zielmicha>

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