[Gambas-user] Gambas in a tablet. Is it possible?

[Rob Kudla]

On 2013-10-31 04:43, Jose Monteiro wrote:
> Is it possible to install Gambas over Android?

If you install an Ubuntu chroot or virtual machine, sure, just apt-get it.
None of the toolkits are optimized for touch but I assume Ubuntu has done
something to make Gtk touch-friendly for their stuff, since tablets are one
of their target platforms. So maybe it'd work with some judicious app design.

But there's no native Android Gambas interpreter yet, and without X or even
glibc, I'm not sure there ever will be. It would be almost as big a job as
a Windows port, which has been tried numerous times without getting further
than a proof of concept.

You can replace Android on many devices with a full Ubuntu ARM
installation, but you'll usually do so at the expense of some hardware
functionality, such as accelerated graphics or Bluetooth.

Rob