I would say don't expect anything in the future that will make it easy to
adapt wxWidgets or other GUI toolkits to Android.
The underlying paradigms (e.g. Activities) are ever very different from a
typical desktop environment.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, LeChuck <[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems many netbook devices will be released in 2010 with Android as
> main operating system. One of our customer is requesting to port our
> existing multiplatform software to Android. This software is currently
> running well on Windows, Mac OS and some Linux Distributions (Ubuntu,
> Xandros, ...). UI is based on wxWidgets.
>
> Currently, with Android 2.1 SDK we don't think it will be possible to
> port the software, because SDK does not give access to low level linux
> layers like X11, sockets, devices, ...
>
> I think Android is a great OS for smartphones, but in its current
> form, it is not well adapted for computers and netbooks and is very
> restrictive for developpers.
>
> Does anyone know if Google intends to release a specific SDK for
> netbook allowing us to adapt our software in the same way as we have
> done for others Linux distributions?
>
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