My major concern against porting to Android is that Java is a horrible language, even with the nice Android libs. Google have said that they will add more languages, though.
A more long term solution would be using PyPy, since it has significantly lower memory usage and better optimisation prospects. Switching to PyBank for bindings should also help. 2009/6/15 NoiseEHC <noise...@freemail.hu>: > >> Technologically the phone and the computer are quickly converging. >> They are just coming at the problem from different points of view. >> Phones focus on power consumption and size. Netbooks focus on screen >> size and general use computing. >> >> If the new ARM technology is as good inside devices as it is on paper >> the convergence is going to happen sooner than many of us expect it. >> > If you look at the Nvidia Tegra video made by Charbax then it is clear > that it will converge next year. > Google and the ARM companies pushed millions of $ into quick web > browsing and hardware accelerated video and flash (something even Bryan > Berry defines as the future of educational software development). > Android implements the following things (the next version will support > smartbooks): > 1. Its Dalvik VM works in very limited resource environments. It is > something Negroponte talked about but nothing happened (with Python > memory comsumption), Google did not talk about it just fixed it. > 2. The applications are separated like in Rainbow. OLPC will even loose > Rainbow with the transitioning to stock Fedora. > 3. There is an usable programming environment targeting Android. I can > debug programs from Eclipse running on Windows!!! > 4. All the activities on Android can be used by the cursor keys only (so > they ARE easy to handle). Something Sugar lacks even now. > 5. There is a massive army of programmers targeting Android. > It is only my really humble opinion, but could that be that probably the > most sane way would be porting the relevant parts of Sugar to the > Android platform and ditching the rest? > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel