Yes Felix, it *has* to be this year…. We do not port our swing based commercial apps if JavaFX does not run on tablets as well.
Am 30.07.2013 um 21:06 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com>: > 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 > >
