Thanks Bill for your suggestions but they do not quite answer my concerns.
I have used Michael Dykman's jconsole and it works but it is not a suitable
initial environment for young students, something which was close to Ken's
heart. Michael showed what is feasible, even if other pressures have
prevented him taking it further. I was hoping that the qtide development was
now far enough advanced to test labs, to begin exploring what is feasible
using android devices, and perhaps even start developing some simple
teaching projects.
I thought the reference in the first line of
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Qt%20IDE to an experimental port to
android was just that. When downloaded it generates a file
qtide-signed.apk on my Android phone. When that App is installed it gives
a J console and it will produce simple plots. There are none of the other
features of the qt environment.
install is defined, but on entering install'qtide' the cursor immediately
returns to the console, and there is no aparent other effect.
The only other information is found hidden under Source qtide at the end
of the Wiki page where README.txt contains a lot of clues. I only found
it by chance.
I have tried to read that carefully but while it may suffice for someone
thoroughly familiar with linux based systems, I found it nearly
incomprehensible. It does seem to describe a process which should generate
an .apk file which includes the components and file structure necessary.
I presume someone has built such a file and would hope we can find a way a
sharing it, and updates of it when a new base library and qt scripts are
released.
Hopefully the package manager will not need too much tailoring to this
different environment, but if that is difficult, consider enabling those
willing to explore using the system on android devices, by including all
packages in the system.
There may be some simple things I have not done which will generate the full
Qt ide, but it would be good if we could identify and document them.
I have been concerned that with J7 and J8 the J community has seemed to be
trying to explore many different paths and risked losing the shared
experience and development which were a feature up to J6. The Qt
environment has the potential to regenerate some of those synergies, with a
common interface across most of the common environments.
There are many contributions which make this development feasible. It is
very exciting to see it coming together.
Fraser
----- Original Message -----
From: "bill lam" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Jbeta] J interface in Android
the j console for android did not have updates for a some
months. I am not sure its current status.
There is an experimental android port of jqt in
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Qt%20IDE
Пн, 18 мар 2013, Fraser Jackson писал(а):
Thanks Bill and all the others who have cotnributed to the Qt
interface for windows.
Will it be possible to have something like the term and script
interface with the Android implementation? Currently as I understand
it we have a console and the plot facilities but to make it really
useful we need a script tool.
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