On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Umm.. I'm getting more and more interested in the Android platform. > Maybe it's time I officially start working on a OpenGL backend for > fpGUI. fpGUI would at least guarantee a small executable - at least > compared to LCL. > > I'll be Google'ing some more tonight. :)
Just one hint: Android is a *lot* more then just drawing some graphics. For example: 1> Virtual keyboard. There are dozens and dozens, even widespread devices like Galaxy Tab come with non-standard keyboards, some of them only for China, some only for Taiwan. The manufacturers always make sure the standard widgets work fine with those keyboards, but custom drawn toolkits have a really hard time keeping up. And you can't test this with the emulator, you need 100+ devices to make sure it works everywhere. I don't know what Qt did, but I bet it doesn't work with half of the virtual keyboards out there. 2> Action completion. In standard apps you can for example click on a video and complete the action with any installed video player, and this requires access to the SDK which is only availabla from the Java side or from the bindings which I built 3> Application lifecycle, also something different from other platforms 4> Orientation change, the app needs to respond to it. With standard widgets it automagically works -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
