Pushed out a release yesterday mostly for a bug fix. I have to build git-annex 5 times now when releasing. Am wondering if I could get rid of the Linux 64 bit standalone build. The 32 bit build should run ok on 64 bit Linux systems, since it has all its own 32 bit libraries. What I really need to do is set up autobuilders for Linux and Android, like we have for OSX.
Today, dealt with all code that creates or looks at symlinks. Audited every bit of it, and converted all relevant parts to use a new abstraction layer that handles the pseudolink files git uses when core.symlinks=false. This is untested, but I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
Where next for Android? I want to spend a while testing command-line git-annex. After I'm sure it's really solid, I should try to get the webapp working, if possible.
I've heard rumors that Ubuntu's version of ghc somehow supports template haskell on arm, so I need to investigate that. If I am unable to get template haskell on arm, I would need to either wait for further developments, or try to expand yesod's template haskell to regular haskell and then build it on arm, or I could of course switch away from hamlet (using blaze-html instead is appealing in some ways) and use yesod in non-template-haskell mode entirely. One of these will work, for sure, only question is how much pain.
After getting the webapp working, there's still the issue of bundling it all up in an Android app that regular users can install.
In your research to see how to bundle up a graphical android app, I suggest you read up on phonegap: http://phonegap.com/
Essentially they bundle webkit so you can turn a web app into an android app. Not sure if they help you ship native/binary stuff along side the html/javascript/css, but phonegap should at least be useful as a reference for how to do some of the bundling-related stuff.