Thanks Johan for stepping up to the plate on this one. Whilst I've not been actively involved with the iOS and Android work, I have been observing the community interest and progress. I was getting very close to the point of proposing a similar project myself, as I was very worried about community duplication of effort. I think if people interested in this can rally around a single project then the progress will be swifter and you can all share in the reward.
-- Jonathan On 17/11/2013 7:53 a.m., Johan Vos wrote: > Hi, > > Since I (and others) think it is very important that we can have > JavaFX applications running on Android (and IOS, but in this mail I > limit myself to Android), I created a bitbucket project containing > code and build instructions to run JavaFX applications on Android. > > I didn't do much myself. Rather, this project is about providing easy > and consistent build instructions. I combined information from this > mailinglist with information I could find online, and with help from > the JavaFX team. > > The project is here: https://bitbucket.org/johanvos/jfx78 > > After I gathered the information, it didn't cost me much time to get > HelloWorld running on my Samsung S3 mini. I never wrote an Android > project before, and I never used the Android SDK or NDK before I > started with this thing almost a week ago. Hence, it is not that hard > to create a JavaFX application on Android. > > This project is far from finished. There are a number of things that > have to be done: > * Improve build instructions > * Simplify build > * Fix bugs (e.g. touch-events are not processed yet) > * Manage the synchronization with the main JavaFX repo > * create plugins for IDE's or maven to automatically build the Android > packages > > I want to open this project at this early stage, though, since I think > it is important to have more community input. Also, I want to give a > shout to the world that JavaFX on Android is not a dream. > > I hope many of you try out the instructions, improve them, correct > them, and test your applications on Android. > > Thanks a lot to all the people on this mailinglist for telling how > they were dealing with JavaFX on Android. Again, I didn't write much > code, but rather tried to combine the information and make it useful > for everybody. > > I know there is an intense debate about the role of Oracle on the > Android (and IOS) ports. Let me close with a similar situation. About > 17 years ago (sigh, time flies), I was involved with the port of Java > to Linux, as part of the Blackdown team. Initially, we didn't get much > help from Sun Microsystems (it was even not easy to get the latest > code). But once we showed that we could run the thing on Linux, and > that many developers were interested in it, Sun started to add > resources on this as well. Eventually, we became obsolete. I hope to > reach the obsolete stage on this project as well. > > Again, the project can be found here:https://bitbucket.org/johanvos/jfx78 > > - Johan
