Hi Chris, On 21 August 2015 at 00:18, Chris Ballinger <chrisballin...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is an open source project I am really looking to make happen in order > to democratize the ability to run your own server. If you are familiar > enough with Prosody, Android, and the NDK, to make this a reality please get > in touch! If it helps, I may be able to find you some funding to get this > off the ground.
Running Prosody on Android is certainly possible, though I don't know of it being done in any open-source projects so far. I don't think any of the core developers currently have the time to dedicate to such a project (getting 0.10 finished and released is our priority), but we'd certainly be happy to help with advice wherever we can. > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Chris Ballinger <chrisballin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> All of the Java Lua wrappers aren't maintained but it seems that you can >> cross compile LuaJIT for the Android NDK which may be sufficient. Some of >> Prosody's Lua dependencies require C libraries as well, which may complicate >> the NDK build process. LuaJIT isn't necessary, building plain Lua for Android would be much easier and more portable. Our own C libraries are very simple, but your main problem will be dependencies. For example LuaSec needs OpenSSL, and our util.encodings needs libidn or libicu. >> Beyond that initial hurdle, it looks like overall the structure of Prosody >> would be compatible with running in the Android app sandbox given the proper >> configuration. >> >> Anything I'm missing here? No, it would work fine technically. I'm not completely sure I understand the greater purpose of such a project though. For example, I wouldn't generally recommend running a server on something with an intermittent internet connection, which is true of 99% of the devices that Android is installed on. Regards, Matthew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "prosody-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to prosody-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to prosody-dev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prosody-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
