On 06/12/2010 01:55, Jonathan Gutow wrote: > I have done some investigation on this. I do not believe it is possible > without changes to Android for us to develop and applet version of Jmol that > will work within the Android browsers. That said, an Android App version of > Jmol is feasible, but will require some work as Android uses a different set > of GUI primitives than the SWING and AWT Java tools that Jmol uses. I took a brief look at porting Jalview to android and concluded the same thing - a new android widget set needs to be constructed, and any dependencies on the awt event model need to be ported (in addition to any new event handlers that need implementing). There are some cross compilation tools to help with the task, but it will still require a fair-few man-hours. I think Jmol is actually in a better position than Jalview, since the user interface (menus, events, etc) is already abstracted for the core viewer window, and there is already some support for touch screen gestures.. however, the console would have to be re-implemented in under the android windowing system (AWS). > I think this is a worthy effort, but maybe we need some support (Google?). The best bet to start with would be to propose one or more google summer of code projects, and put out some feelers in order to search for eligible students with android development experience.
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