On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:00:18 +0800 > Alex Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 于 2012/4/27 20:56, Pekka Paalanen 写道: > > > 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
Does that mean it should be possible sometime 'soon' to run xwayland -> wayland -> SurfaceFlinger? I've not seen any xservers that work on android as yet; and I'd really really like to use x2go or one of it's ilk on my galaxy tab. vino's screensharing/console attach is rather broken in recent ubuntus, xrdp's never worked quite right; so the only options one has right now is good old xvnc/tightvncserver running it's own unique X display, and performance is predictably horrible unless you drop down to heavily compressed 8-bit. -- [ Graham Cantin ] | (408) 890-7463 - Google Voice FindME "You're arrogant for thinking you can, ignorant for thinking you cannot." [ System Administrator ] | Secret Lair Labs - http://www.sllabs.com/ "As living spies we must recruit men who are intelligent but appear to be stupid; who seem to be dull but are strong in heart; men who are agile, vigorous, hardy, and brave; well-versed in lowly matters and able to endure hunger, cold, filth, and humiliation." - Tu Mu (803-825) _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
