Will Dukascopy eventually be releasing an Android API similar in capability to the JForex API?

HyperScalper

Please specify your needs - what do you need mobile API for?

In the same way that "generic" order processing on the JForex platform is supplemented by IStrategy module custom plug-ins, so the "generic" platform on Android needs user-programmable custom logic as a possibility for advanced programmers.

Within the context of the secure Login which you already provide on Android, surely it would not be difficult for a subset of IStrategy functionality which is user-programmable to "plug in".

Or, we should be provided with the ability to write standalone API applications on Android. This would NOT be the same API as the current standalone API, but would provide the same basic functionality. Surely this makes sense?

Android will eventually be more than a "toy" and so migrating a core functional subset of the current JForex API (not all of it, of course) should be a strategic project for Dukascopy to support Trading system Developers.

Even if the API is radically different from what we have now (using the Android styles), still having it accessible to Developers would enable secure Android based custom Dukascopy development for us.

Please consider how this might be done, by exposing the API's you already use, and planning to make them accessible in an Android Development Kit.

I am sure this would have a great appeal to the new generation of mobile developers, and it would enhance Dukascopy's business by attracting innovative Apps to the platform.

HyperScalper

I can't believe that nobody seems interested in an Android API subset.

As they say on Saturday Night Live, "Really?"

HyperScalper

As now it seems that your are opening a conversation on the subject, let me start asking.

What would you do on an Android device? It is either a phone or a tablet, I just cannot find it usable for trading because of the small screen size.
Are there situations when you don't rely on a chart for instance? When you could use such small sized device to do/modify trading operations.

Dukascopy offers an Android based trading interface. But, as far as I know (afaik) there are no plans to permit users/developers to write Strategy modules or extensions to that system.

Android is "Java friendly" even though we know the resulting code is not a traditional JVM, but it is particularly appealing to the JForex community through the usage of Java in development.

Custom trading logic could be added to the Android platform through this "mobile Strategy" approach, in the same way that extensions to the JForex platform permit custom logic, including the ability to support that logic through access to the user interface.

PLEASE CONSIDER a "Mobile Strategy API" for Android which permits users and developers to extend the functionality in a manner which is similar to the existing Strategy approach in JForex.

Of course, not everything will be appropriate, and developing for a potentially mobile platform has its own guidelines, but please provide for extensions to the Android platform through an API plugin approach.

Android development guidelines from Google include the application having an influence on the device capabilities it is willing to support. So some things appropriate for a tablet would not be appropriate for a mobile phone device. That's just standard Android stuff to make those distinctions as relates to screen resolution, etc.

HyperScalper

No response to my request, and I'm eager to write a custom Android
mobile order entry app. Will you be exposing an SDK for Strategy
development in Android?

How can I develop a custom Order Entry App on Android, which
will run in conjunction with the Dukascopy Android client, in the
same way as I can write a Strategy module to run in JForex?

I could write a GWT app running on my own server, but it seems
it would be better if you could expose a subset of your development
Android SDK code for Developers to use ? Perhaps you already have,
and I just don't know where to look ?



HyperScalper