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Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?
From: |
David Chisnall |
Subject: |
Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android? |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:48:27 +0100 |
On 28 Sep 2011, at 14:45, Jackie Gleason wrote:
> I was playing around with a tutorial last night here, and it got me
> thinking...
>
> Now I am a noob to GNUStep but my understanding is that with a certain
> toolchain you can develop iOS apps. Although I am interested in this too,
> last night got me thinking, could it be integrated into the gnustep make in
> order to work with ndk-build? I'm sure there are a variety of hardware
> virtualizing issues, however, seems very possible.
>
> Anyone have thoughts?
It's something that we've discussed a few times. There are two requirements
for porting iOS apps to Android with GNUstep:
- An implementation of UIKit (GNUstep has the AppKit framework from OS X, not
the UIKit framework from iOS)
- An Android back end (the part that handles drawing, window management, and
event handling)
I am currently playing with the WebOS device that HP sent me. GNUstep-base
seems to be working nicely on it, but it only provides two ways of
communicating with user are via HTML5 or SDL. I will probably go the HTML5
route for now. I wanted the device to play with my Objective-C to JavaScript
converter. The Canvas API is basically a JavaScript binding to CoreGraphics,
so implementing CoreGraphics on top of it should be relatively trivial, and
that would make porting iOS apps relatively painless. The same approach might
work for Android, since it also has a WebKit / V8 browser...
David
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- Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?, Jackie Gleason, 2011/09/28
- Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?,
David Chisnall <=
- Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?, Ivan Vučica, 2011/09/28
- Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?, David Chisnall, 2011/09/28
- Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?, Ivan Vučica, 2011/09/28
- Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?, David Chisnall, 2011/09/28
- FOSDEM 2012 (was: Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?), Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf, 2011/09/28
- Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?, Ivan Vučica, 2011/09/29
- Re: Could GNUStep allow for iPhone porting to Android?, Niels Grewe, 2011/09/29