On 18 December 2014 at 15:25, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the case of Android, there is also the fact that Google chose to make > Java the runtime environment. It isn't impossible to build and run "native" > (i.e. non-Java) applications for Android, but the platform certainly isn't > on your side if you want to do this. Except that isn't really true either. The Android VM isn't Java - it's Dalvik which is a completely different beast with it's own bytecode format, and rather a lot slower. The libraries are only partially based on the Java API (eg. nothing graphical is). About the only thing that's really Java in Android is the language itself ... > This means that "simple" ports of > desktop applications (at least those not written in Java already) is not > necessarily trivial, and could actually be quite hard. ... which all means that even porting a desktop application written in Java would be far from trivial. Best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net Praxis LIVE - open-source intermedia development - www.praxislive.org Digital Prisoners - interactive spaces and projections - www.digitalprisoners.co.uk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
