As you may know, android apps are starting to move onto desktop environments. Android apps now run on Chrome OS, Samsung's Galaxy S8 now has a docking station that runs on a desktop environment, and there's a large number of start ups that are creating various forms of competing products to Samsung's. Also, with android now having keyboard, mouse and re sizable multi window support, AQndroid tablets can now have comparable functionality to laptops in most aspects.
Given this, what are your thoughts of bringing a port of Spyder to Android in the near future? I think this makes a lot of sense for a few reasons: 1) In the US and other countries, Chrome OS is beginning to achieve market dominance in the education sector, currently controlling over half the market. No python/R/data science IDEs that will run natively on it exist. (I know this can be worked around using Crouton but educational institutions can't or won't do it) 2) Since this is a major emerging market and you could be one of the first groups to bring a major IDE to Android, you'd get a lot of publicity and support for doing this it, and you could be very influential on the overall IDE community in supporting android desktop environments 3) It seems like a reasonable achievable task, because Android already has the ability to run apps made in QT and python, with fairly minimal QT changes required. You could also reduce initial development time by just not supporting screen sizes that would require a major redesign of the interface (since writing code in them would be difficult anyways) and not bringing over non-essential functionality that poses a difficulty of porting. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
