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

[Jose Monteiro]

Thank you Rob, for your quick reply.

A Virtual Machine as one of the possible solutions, you said? Interesting, but I guess free RAM would be a bottle neck. I could test this, for sure.

If a full Ubuntu ARM installation could preserve the touch screen functionality AND the virtual keyboard, this software is completely possible.

Maybe I need to think a little harder about it.





On Thursday, October 31, 2013 9:31 AM, Rob Kudla <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...> wrote:
 
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

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