[Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

[Daniel Narvaez]

The situation is probably improved since you tried. Collabora has been
working on it a lot and parts of their work seems to be landing upstream.
For example glib landed very recently

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689223

I agree that it would be worth revisiting.

On 16 April 2013 18:58, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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.
> > --
> > Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
> > One Laptop Per Child
>
>
>
> --
>       ( http://cscott.net )
>



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Daniel Narvaez
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