Datasources are hard coded and stored on multiple places.

The default datasources in mixare are currently hardcoded and duplicated in 
multiple places (DataSources, MixContext and MixView). 
And in order to have a DataHandler plugin (A plugin that handles the json/xml 
data from a url), we need to have the datasources on a single place I.E. A 
ContentProvider or a text file.

The current datasources have this format:
NAME | URL | TYPE | DISPLAY | VISIBLE
An example of a datasource string:
Wikipedia|http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyWikipediaJSON|0|0|true

The NAME, URL and VISIBLE property are easy to configure. But the TYPE and 
DISPLAY properties of the url above are currently hardcoding to a [0 = 
WIKIPEDIA] type and  [0 = CIRCLE_MARKER] display. 

I was thinking about having the TYPE and DISPLAY property derrived from the url 
and json/xml data. So I can make DataHandlers according to the TYPE property 
and markers according to the DISPLAY property.

Furthermore, I was also thinking about a ContentProvider where the  mixare app 
(core) has the ability to add/edit and delete datasources, and the plugins have 
the ability to only add datasources. This way, the  users can create plugins 
where they can add datasources from the pluginside.

I would like to know what you think about this. And I would like to help you 
with this feature by building it in the fork(abduegal/mixare).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest version, Android

Original issue reported on code.google.com by abdu...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2012 at 9:42

ds0000254 / mixare

Datasources are hard coded and stored on multiple places. #97