Michael Dominic Kostrzewa wrote: > >> Android has many good things on it but also what is better >> and most successful is not so clear. >> >> Technically Android is running same SW platform than maemo, >> so it won't be difficult to run android and maemo applications >> in maemo devices. If i quess, it wont take long until someone >> in oss community ports android to N8xx platform. >> > > Well, this is not really correct. While it runs same operating system > (just like ie. your washing machine might be running embedded Linux), it > runs a significantly different SW platform. > > 1) No X > That's no problem. Also Clutter run in maemo even it used OpenGl-ES directly. It can run in window or in fullscreen.
> 2) Android is virtual-machine based versus native maemo apps > I don't see any problem on this. We have already Python and Jalimo > 3) Different toolkit, different object-orientation model, different IPC > ideas > Different toolkits are mostly usabitity/ look-and-feel problem. How to get same look and feel to all of them ? I see most problem coming from this IPC model and how to adapt Android Activity/Intent/Service/Provider model to maemo . Basically i think that maemo environment can provide Services and Providers for Android applications acting as Activities ans Intents. > While making Android run on nXXX is prolly possible (and we'll see it) > integrating android applications inside hildon is going to be rather > hard. > The seamless integration is of course much more work than just quick and dirty port. Kate
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