fltk on android

[holm.h...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I notice there are done quite a work on portintg fltk to android.

What is the status of this work. Would be most interesting to test out !

Best regards
Håvard

[Ian MacArthur]

On 1 Dec 2020, at 23:01, holm.haavard wrote:

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> I notice there are done quite a work on portintg fltk to android.
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> What is the status of this work. Would be most interesting to test out !

It’s Matt’s project, and tends to proceed in fits and starts when Matt gets time to work on it.

AFAIK, it “works” but in a somewhat constrained fashion, so you could try it out, but I do not think you could deliver an app with it at this stage.

[Matthias Melcher]

Hi, yes, the Android port is my project. It has come quite far, and actually many of the demo projects run quite well. It does need a lot of cleanup though to be maintainable, and it will need a more specific Android adaptation, so FLTK apps can react to Android specific conditions.

I have long breaks in my FLTK development thanks to a bunch of private matters. I want to really get back into the Android code, and I am waiting for the opportunity, but I can't give a reliable date for a release or even a prerelease. I will merge a recent addition ASAP: the Android Studio IDE is now constructed by an FLTK app instead of a (convoluted) CMake script.  

Matthias

[Mo_Al_]

Thanks for your  work Matthias.  The cmake script works well.  I can add fltk as a subproject in a native Cmake android app and it would just work. The only thing I’ve noticed is the small resolution and the support for multithreading, for which I patch the fltk android system driver to derive from the posix driver, and I copy the x11 thread messaging since I use them. 

[holm.h...@gmail.com]

Thank you Matthias,

I think your project is most interesting and believe I now speak for many.

Looking forward to a release !

Håvard