Hi Rajiv, your plan seems to have good goals, but is missing some understanding of what you can and cannot do.
You cannot run Sugar (a Python-based window manager, based on traditional Linux sw stack) on the Android stack. Way too different. To reach your goals, however, you could try something like... - identify what good Android Apps exist that match Sugar Activities, those you don' t have to port, just replace :-) (ie: don't port Record!) - those Sugar Activities that don't have an Android counterpart, reimplement them as Android apps - Implement a shell -- replacing the standard Android shell -- that has the main features of Sugar shell - Implement some of the key services that make Sugar special: ad-hoc auto-networking, collaboration stack, the Journal. The most important, IMO, is the Journal, as Android's handling of "my files" is extremely poor. All these services will need integration into the shell and apps. Alternatively, you can wait for Android/Linux stack convergence projects (see Jolla / Sailfish) to mature. Maybe in a year or two there are ways to run Sugar inside Android or Android Apps on a Linux stack. hth, m On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM, RJV <jv.ravichand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to port Sugar on Android and are faced with these options: > > 1. Sugar as an application on Android. > 2. As a platform on top of the Linux platform. > > Can the Sugar build be used to create an app bundle to deploy to the app > store? Are there any licensing issues? > > On 2., can someone share their experience, if any, please? > -- > Regards, > > Ravichandran J.V. > http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com > XO 1.75 - 12.1, 0.96, Build 21, Q4D17 > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
