Just a little more info - it remains a possibility, but it is an unlikely one, 
for a couple reasons:

- Pivot uses Java2D for rendering, whereas Android uses a custom 2D library 
called SGL.

- Android is optimized for delivering user experiences on a mobile device 
whereas Pivot is designed for building RIA/desktop apps. The user interaction 
models are not quite the same. It is likely that attempting to build a mobile 
app using Pivot would produce a sub-par user experience when compared to a 
mobile app built using the Android or iPhone SDK. 

However, since both Android and Pivot are Java based, there is a good chance 
that quite a bit of non-UI specific code could be shared between an Android app 
and a Pivot app.

Hope this helps.

Greg


On Jan 12, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Sandro Martini wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
> thanks for your congratulations :-) we are all very happy for the
> graduation, and we hope to get always better results with Pivot.
> 
> For a detailed answer probably Greg or Todd can tell you more, but
> here is a quick answer:
> I remember we discuss this feature many months ago (probably you can
> find some discussions from apache mailing lists archived on markmail),
> but we had to drop it until 2.0 (or later) because the platform
> (Android) is very interesting, but we didn't have a real knowledge of
> it (of us if I remember well, only Niclas should have) and the
> approach seems different from that of current back-end code of Pivot.
> So, to avoid to waste the little time we have, writing a not-so-good
> implementation of it, we dropped this idea, but don't worry, I'm sure
> it's not forever.
> 
> I hope this helps, but if you have additional questions, we are here ...
> 
> Bye,
> Sandro

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