Intro GSoC 2016

[Rishabh Makhija]

Name: Rishabh 'rishabh7m' Makhija
Social: https://github.com/rishabh7m
From: India
Skills: Android, Java, C++, Node.Js, SQL
Found via: Google Summer of Code
Interests: Interested in developing the android app for the project 'Mobile Server Management Utility'
Extras: Core developer at ownCloud-android and contributor at wordpress-android

 

[Cervator]

Hi @Rishabh Makhija and welcome!

A few students have shown interest in that topic. I'll link to my first feedback on it: http://forum.terasology.org/threads/hello-terasology.1449/#post-12877

In short it'll likely start by hooking up a REST api to the server so the Android app (or any other utility) could interact with the server. Got any related experience there?

Also see the main GSOC post if you haven't yet

http://forum.terasology.org/threads/gsoc-2016-were-in-and-need-more-official-mentors-now.1452/

 

[Rishabh Makhija]

Yup, I have experience in REST api's as well I have developed REST api's for a startup Twine Tree. So, should I also work on issue #1375 that you listed in the post?

 

[Cervator]

Yup, I have experience in REST api's as well I have developed REST api's for a startup Twine Tree. So, should I also work on issue #1375 that you listed in the post?

Good to hear! But actually #1375 had a fix submitted earlier today: https://github.com/MovingBlocks/Terasology/pull/2202 - crazy amount of activity right now

Ultimately we need the REST api for the server before we can make an external management interface, so if you want to go for this item try to dig around in the code to find a spot where we can hook up some REST library - I'm sure there is an appropriate one we can use. Something that'll start only if the game is launched with the -headless argument and be able to call methods like the kick command.