In a previous Xamarin native application, I used Microcharts, which is a charting library for .net. Using Microcharts, we had the chart-related logic in the shared part (we used MVVM) and just used charting components on each platform. I was wondering if there is any equivalent for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile? I'd like to have the charting logic in the shared part.
Thanks.
AFAIK there isn't one that you're looking for.
You could still share your charting logic in KMM, exposing all the chart related information to the platform specific Views, then map that data if needed for the specific library you'd use on iOS/Android.
I think it's best if you don't mix view related libraries, since this way you still get the flexibility of choosing any chart library for any platform
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I am currently developing an enterprise software. The client stated the need to translate certain texts that we gather from different sources into their home language, or at least into English. Due to GDPR concerns we cannot use external APIs like Google Translate API or DeepL. We need to have either a self-hosted solution or even better, just a python framework that contains translation logic for different languages internally.
Do you know of any such framework?
LibreTranslate seems to be a good option that we will be trying out.
I was surfing the Internet where I found an article saying that Alfresco is a Content Management Framework as well as App Development Framework. While I understood it as Content Management Framework, I am not able to know about it as an App Development Framework.I tried researching over it, but could not find anything viable.
I want to know that how Alfresco can be used as an App Development Framework ?
Hi Alfresco has an application development framework, more info here:
Guides: https://community.alfresco.com/community/application-development-framework/pages/get-started
Angular 2 components repository: https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-ng2-components
Alfresco App Yeoman generator: https://github.com/Alfresco/generator-ng2-alfresco-app
JavaScript API repository: https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-js-api
Some videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OFI3izSDdk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOgVbINAyU
In case you want a live support you can use the Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/Alfresco/alfresco-ng2-components
Well, if for App is meant mobile application, Alfresco has a Mobile SDK available for both iOS and Android which can help you create your own application to work against the Alfresco Platform.
Moreover there is another framework called Aikau which has one main goal
The main purpose of Aikau is to provide a library of widgets that can be easily assembled into a web application for accessing an Alfresco repository. The aim is not to replace Share but it was necessary to migrate away from its original implementation, which was based around the Surf paradigms of pages, templates, components and web scripts, towards a solution that provided for rapid development and customization.
This feature was first introduiced in Alfresco 4.2 and then extended in Alfresco 5.0
If you want to build applications for Alfresco you have a number of options available to you - as mentioned you can build mobile applications (and there are SDKs available to do this).
If you want to build web applications then you have the option of either customizing the default Alfresco Share client (which is built on top of the Alfresco Surf framework using a combination of YUI 2 and Aikau). Alternatively you can built your own web client by building a new client with the Maven Aikau Archetype.
The advantage of the Surf framework is that it takes care of Alfresco authentication across all the various APIs (WebScript, CMIS, Public API, etc) as well as providing lots of security benefits (CSRF, XSS white-lists, etc).
The advantage of using Aikau is that it provides a large number of out-of-the-box widgets that are specifically designed to work with Alfresco data and address Alfresco (ECM) specific use cases.
You are of course not limited to these options - you can build an application on top of any stack you wish, but ultimately you will want to be making use of the REST APIs that the Alfresco Repository provides.
Depending upon the application you are building you may also want to build custom data models and build in workflow via Activiti BPM as well.
First off, I've never used GWT before. I have good experience in HTML/CSS/JS/JSP.
I'm looking for people's opinions on the suitability of Google Web Toolkit for a brand new web app I'm developing.
A big requirement is that the UI is attractive and well designed (Does not look like a clunky Java/Swing App).
It should look like any typical HTML/CSS/JS based modern website.
It is an internal company application so no SEO is required.
JSF is not an option.
The web app frameworks used will be Spring Webflow and Spring MVC. It will use lightweight controllers to communicate with a service layer.
Would Spring Tiles combined with JSP be an easier or more flexible option than GWT for what I am trying to achieve?
Advantages/Disadvantages of GWT and other options welcome.
Thanks
Advantages of GWT
You don't really need to know any JavaScript, since all your client side code will be in Java
This is usually the main reason people go for GWT. They're backend developers who know Java but don't know Javascript, and they don't really want to learn it. Still, you should be careful about this. GWT is a very complete and complex framework with many concepts that are specific to GWT. Even though you'll be coding in Java you will still have to go through many tutorials and documentation before you can build a clean GWT app
Ready to use widgets, like date pickers, dynamic tables, layout panels, popups
It's not really specific to GWT. Other front end framework, like jQuery or Dojo or whatever also give you these. You can have a look at the GWT Showcase to see what GWT has to offer.
GWT takes care of a lot of complex and potentially dangerous stuff for you.
Stuff like Cross-Browser Support, Internationalization, Image and static resources bundling, Front end security, Ajax communication with a server, Events and MVP (just like MVC) framework support. Have a look at the documentation, it is very well done and very thorough.
Debugging is easy
GWT has two different 'modes'. When you're building your app for production, gwt will compile all the java code for the front-end that you wrote into javascript. This javascript will be executed in your clients' browsers. But when you're developping, you can run your app without compiling your java code to javascript. This lets you use a debugger to debug your interface. It's a very good tool.
Disadvantages of GWT
As I said before, GWT is a full framework, with concepts specific to it. Don't think that just because it's in java and you know java that you won't have to learn new stuff.
Interfacing GWT with back end frameworks is not easy
The most common way for your GWT client code to communicate with a server is by using GWT RPC mechanism. It means that you will need to have servlets that implement specific interfaces. You should definetly read the docs on client-server communication to see if that fits well with Spring. A search on SO or Google should give you pointers to setup your application.
I have a requirement of developing a Plug-in based UI architecture. Currently, my app uses GWT (Google-Tool-kit) as a client side technology. Now, I am looking for making the app more modular and plugin-aware.
For example, I should have my UI framework ready and any other developers can develop their UI and install/run it as part of my framework. My Framework should never have the GWT code from other developers and compile them as part of the framework.
But the problem I get is, GWT expects all the codes to be compiled together and output the javascript/html which doesn't solve my purpose.
Is there anybody who is also thinking on the same line/ developing something like this? It would be a great help to get me started with some data point/sample code/app.
Thanks in advance.
-Tapas
Do the plugin developers have to develop in GWT? If you want to expose a Javascript API to developers, then you can look at GWT-Js interop API project: http://code.google.com/p/gwt-api-interop/
I was looking for some nice tool to generating charts and I think Google Charts will be the best. But I am wondering if there are some ready to use libraries to connect Google Charts with Zend Framework.
Did you use them both common ?
You may want to look at http://www.phpclasses.org/search.html?words=google+chart&x=0&y=0&go_search=1
There's no google chart classes distributed with Zend framework itself but there are plenty of 3rd party classes out there for what you need.