[Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

[C. Scott Ananian]

At the time, the android NDK was rather eccentric, which made
cross-compilation needlessly difficult.  And the GTK stack is very
deep, there are a lot of dependencies.  My understanding is that the
NDK has been improved since then, and is a little more compatible.  I
wouldn't say speed is the main problem, I'd say maintaining the
port/fork is, since the changes required to the GTK stack were
extensive.  It would be worth revisiting this to see if the situation
has improved.
  --scott

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Apr 13 2013, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
>> I was curious about what it would take to port enough of the GNOME
>> libraries to android to be able to run the current Sugar
>> implementation there. I'm not planning to work on it, but I thought it
>> would be useful to post some notes on what I found.
>
> cscott did some work on this a few years ago, and published source
> code -- see in particular:
>
> http://cananian.livejournal.com/62756.html
> http://cananian.livejournal.com/63595.html
>
> It was very slow on the hardware we had available at the time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chris.
> --
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