Ways of adding data

We are near the end of the second period of development, right before mid-term evaluation, and the first version of the different Intent interfaces are implemented and ready to use. The following diagram summarizes the functional elements and demonstrates the different approaches of adding event data to Historify.

The Bridge is set of helper classes for firing Intents (client side), and a Service that receives the requests (implemented in Historify’s application package) and able to handle the REGISTER_SOURCE and the QUICK_POST Intent actions. On the diagram, the client app A uses the REGISTER_SOURCE Intent to publish its EventProviderA provider as an external source of events, while app B - instead of storing and sharing the events - uses the QuickPost interface to reach the QucikPostsProvider via the Historify Bridge.

The client side of the bridge is available as a java library called historify-bridge.jar. The sample applications (HelloSharedSource, HelloQuickPost, LendMe) are already using the interface functions via this library.

At least, the Timescape Compatibility is a special Historify client for mapping the data of the Timescape Plugins into fields understood by Historify in order to achieve interoperability. It is under development at the moment.