[Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

[Daniel Narvaez]

On the negative side, gobject-introspection cross compilation still sounds
like a mess

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592311

On 17 April 2013 01:11, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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