Re: [GSOC] Porting Zenmap to Android

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

2015-03-11 15:01 GMT+01:00 Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>:

> W dniu 07.03.2015 o 23:18, Michał Zieliński pisze:
> > 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.
>
> Hello Michał,
>
> Just curious - how feasible would it be to implement such a mobile Qt
> Zenmap-like tool in Python? This way perhaps it could share some of the
> code with Zenmap and NDiff XML routines we already have.
That was, more or less, my plan. Currently Zenmap is separated into two
packages - Zenmap GUI and Zenmap Core. I would create Zenmap Mobile/Zenmap
Qt package which would use Zenmap Core. Utilities for packaging PyQt app to
Android exist and someone already cross-compiled nmap to Android.


> As for functionality, I remember this Android project called Fing - if I
> recall correctly it didn't have that many functions, so it could be a
> good starting point.
>
> Cheers,
> Jacek


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

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