On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:00:18 +0800 Alex Wu <[email protected]> wrote:
> δΊ 2012/4/27 20:56, Pekka Paalanen ει: > > Hi all, > > > > I am happy to announce the first step towards a Wayland stack on > > Android: simple-shm runs with Weston on a Galaxy Nexus! > > > > The whole story, a picture, and a video: > > http://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2012/04/first-light-from-weston-on-android.html > > That is so cool. > Is it possible to make a wayland backend for Android window > system? Not without a serious effort in rewriting the relevant Android components. Android's window system is fairly similar to X in that it has several concurrent components (threads/processes) that are linked to each other in complex ways. Unlike Android, X has ICCCM and EWMH docs... I believe the Android stuff is not designed to be replaced, piecewise or whole. Then there is also Binder, which is a very different IPC mechanism to any traditional Unix ones, and Android components seem to use that practically exclusively. On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:16:48 +0200 Andreas Ericsson <[email protected]> wrote: > That's severely cool. Awesome job :) Thanks. :-) On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:12:35 -0400 Kristian Hoegsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Very cool work, congrats Pekka! Thank you :-) On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:44:00 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote: > Very cool. Is it native app? In the future, will it support JAVA > app? It is native, but it is not buildable by the NDK. I build it as part of the system image, so I guess that makes it a platform development kit (PDK) app. By Java you probably mean Android Java apps, and I think that would require implementing the whole Android UI stack on top of Wayland, pretty much what I answered to Alex Wu. It is still a long way to support even Wayland GL apps, let's concentrate on that first. And even before that, I need to finish the Android backend. Thanks, pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
