hi Qichang,
On 8/11/12 02:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Nowadays many photographers will take their tablet along (they may
> think laptops are too heavy......) to their photography assignments,
> and do the postprocessing during their trip, as well as demonstrating
> their client some post-processed results on-site.
>
> Suppose if one were to port darktable to android (and/or iOS), should
> this be considered as a branch of darktable, or a completely new
> project from scratch? I noticed that in android, you probably want to
> write in Java in the Android API.
> Moreover, how can one port the libraries used by darktable (e.g.
> lensfun etc) to Android? Or are there wrappers allowing direct use of
> existing C-libraries in Android and/or iOS? Or do we choose
> alternative Android-native libraries instead?
>
> These may look like stupid question to you guys, but I haven't had
> experience porting existing desktop applications to tablet
> yet.......... What do you think about the feasibility of developing a
> postprocessing/DAM app for tablets?
Not a stupid question at all. Just a difficult one to
scope out. Darktable is heavily dependent on Gnome and
GTK and is almost all (well, 85%+ last time I counted)
written in C. I don't know what the equivalent libraries
are in the Android ecosystem, but I don't think we could
use C and have a portable (across many tablets) application.
I would be quite happy to see Darktable on a tablet, though.
Just don't have the expertise (or the cycles to acquire
the necessary expertise) to do so.
Perhaps this is where we need to move the app to the clowd,
so you could upload from your tablet to the clowd, work on
the picture there and then display back on the tablet.
James C. McPherson
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