we should develop wxAndroid

Alicia da Conceicao alicia454 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 23:54:35 PDT 2008


>> I believe it's possible and desirable to have wxAndroid.
>> Is anyone thinking about that?
>   Not AFAIK. I didn't look into this platform yet but if the native SDK uses
>  Java it's difficult to see how wx can work on it... If you have already
>  gathered more information about Android (especially from the point of view
>  of C++ development) maybe you should create a page on the wiki under
>  development section, similar to the wxSymbian one, this would be helpful if
>  anybody wants to look into it further later.
>   We could also try to propose this as a GSoC project ;-)

Sorry, but Android will *ONLY* support Java, and not allow C/C++ apps:

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http://code.google.com/android/kb/general.html [google.com]
Q: Can I write code for Android using C/C++?
A: Android only supports applications written using the Java
programming language at this time.
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Google has decided that developers cannot write powerful native binary
applications for Android phone!  Currently I have written a number of
cross-platform high performance cryptographic applications using wx
GUI, but cannot be ported to Java, since the built-in Java binary
library crypto support does not include things like full blown CMS
(Cryptographic Message Syntax) support.  And Java is too slow compared
to C/C++ for me to port my own crypto libraries to it, especially on
an limited embedded/phone platform.

Alicia.


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