[Sugar-devel] Gtk3 sugar on Android

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Wed Jun 5 08:43:57 EDT 2013


On 06/03/2013 01:15 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems like things are coming together pretty nicely for a port of gtk3
> sugar on Android.
>
> * libhybris is making progress
>
> http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html
>
> * Gtk3 has been ported to wayland.

There is still work left to do for the wayland backend [1][2]. I gave it 
a quick try under F19 and the bits Matthias talks about (decorations) 
did not land yet. Sounds like quite bleeding edge still.

> * WebkitGtk have almost been ported to wayland.
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81456
>
> The only missing part seems to be porting the Sugar window management bits
> to wayland. Then it should be possible to build Sugar in a linux arm chroot
> and run it with accelerated graphics on Android [3][4].

As discussed on irc, one of the downsides is that you can not integrate 
with the native Android apps that way. As well using intents would not 
be possible that way [5].

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2013/03/26/adventures-in-wayland/
[2] https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/GTK+
[3] https://github.com/libhybris/libhybris
[4] https://www.yoctoproject.org/
[5] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/camera.html#intents




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