csound has a port for android. pd has something for it too. there are osc apps if you want to make button boxes. kelly On 12/18/2014 12:30 PM, Will Godfrey wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:25:02 -0500 > Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Set Hallström <sakrecoer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Thank you for your input, Paul. >>> >>> Tablets have (a) no keyboard (b) no concept of pointer motion without a >>>> drag (c) no concept of hover (d) much less screen real estate (e) >>>> multitouch (in some cases, at least). that is enough of a set of changes >>>> that any desktop application which took advantage of some of the scale of a >>>> desktop system will likely need to be reconceived fairly deeply. >>>> >>>> >>> What you write makes perfect sense, i guess that would explains why this >>> smartphone/tablet thing has been arround for so long and it still is so >>> difficult to run alternative non-proprietary software on them...? Just like >>> it took several years for GNU/Linux distros to lower themselves to my >>> acutaly quite poor level. >>> >> 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. 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. > > I recently acquired a Sony Xperia tablet (apparently running jellybean) and so > far I've yet to find *anything* I can use it for :( > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
