Hi Tobi, I know how you feel. As much as I am impressed with JavaFX, clearly its long-term survival does depend on it being viable on mobiles and tablets.
All I can say is don't give up yet. I am certainly not giving up. I really hope we see something at JavaOne this year that will please us all. It *has* to be this year! Felix On 31 July 2013 02:40, Tobias Bley <t...@ultramixer.com> wrote: > Hi, > > after many days trying to really build iOS apps with JavaFX and RoboVM or > Avian I’m very frustrated because of the following things: > > Based on RoboVM, JavaFX on iOS runs unacceptable slow - I don’t know the > reason - maybe it’s the rendering model of JavaFX - maybe it’s the > currently unoptimized RoboVM > One big problem of RoboVM is it’s dependence of the Android library, it > does not support the OpenJDK. That’s a big reason for many many problems > when using JavaFX. So currently it’s not possible to use fxml files > (FXMLoader) because of the missing Stax xml parser and classes like > XMLInputFactory in the android library… > Avian: we tried to use JavaFX in conjunction with Avian + OpenJDK and AOT > compiling… we hade no success…too complicated build process…no demos > available for iOS… > > So in my opinion „JavaFX on iOS“ will remain a dream…If there will be no > big company like Oracle or IBM who actively develops a VM for iOS and > Android, JavaFX will be useless, also on Desktop, then HTML5 or QT will be > the big winner for the most use cases on Desktop and mobile… > > Best, > Tobi > >
