[NTLK] Einstein on Android?

[Charles Mangin]

hrm. i suppose it was naive of me to think it was possible to compile the C into an executable, given the correct target architecture.

oh well. maybe if i wil the lottery, i can fund someone full-time to port it :)




--charles.


On Nov 23, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Matthias Melcher wrote:

> 
> On 23.11.2010, at 22:04, Charles Mangin wrote:
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>> i keep seeing progress on the Einstein emulator front, running on iOS devices. while i love the ironic twist of running Newton OS on a new Apple device, i wonder if anyone is working on getting Einstein running on Android devices?
>> 
>> the OS is considerably more hackable, though there are so many different devices with different screen sizes, memory, etc - the most difficult part may very well be picking reference hardware to aim for.
>> 
>> if anyone knows of someone undertaking such a port, please let the list know. i, for one, would definitely donate to the effort.
> 
> I have neither the device not the time. 
> 
> Also, Android is usually programmed in Java, Einstein is C++. There is a native API, too, but AFAIK, we would have to compile individual versions for various Android platforms out there?!
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