Create a client for smartphones?

[François Tissandier]

I'm working on Translations and Answers on Launchpad to try to be useful.
I work on random projects, sometimes spending just 5 minutes to translate a few missing strings on a software. I try to follow the cases on Answers too. But it requires to have a computer, and I think this kind of work could be done sometimes on a smartphone. However, the web interface is not really meant for them. It's possible to use it of course, but not optimal.

A native client for Android, or Iphone maybe (not sure if a lot of opensource fans will buy an Apple locked device, but who knows?) could be nice. At least for those features: follow your Answers, and work on translations. I don't know if it's possible to do that, maybe Launchpad has no API to do so. Also, I wish I could code it myself, but except PHP web development, I don't know anything about smartphone code. Maybe I will try to learn, but then what about the APIs?

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

A lot of users use Launchpad on an iPhone. We certainly knew when they could not login. The community are welcome to create alternate version of Launchpad using the API, but this is not a priority of the Launchpad engineering team.

[Zearin (zearin)]

You know there are lots of users on an iPhone but you don't care?

Launchpad won me over years ago. But lately, I'm starting to wonder…

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

Hey Zearin,

We care. Of course we care.

There's only so much that the paid Launchpad developers can do at any one time. That means we have to often have to deliberately choose to not do stuff that we care about.

Given the choice between making an iPhone client and making a slick, rocking, shiny web site for desktop/laptop users, we would rather do the latter.

jml