Re: [tdf-discuss] LO & OO are not the only competitors of MSOffice... LO could also make a simple office suite that runs in Android & iOS

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
<eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:36 AM, toki <toki.kantoor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 06/04/2011 14:43, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > > How much of LO would need to be ported since android is linux based as
> > is?
> >
> > Basically, it needs to be rewritten in a language that can be compiled
> > into Dalvik Bytecode.
> >
> > The usual language is Java, but at least one C++ compiler that
> > accomplishes the same effect exists.
>
> If one c++ compiler already exists then wouldnt it be easy as just telling
> the compiler to compile?

Almost certainly not, it most likely needs to be able to support the
proper Android APIs to work properly.  And that is only to get it
working as-is, without any reworking of the UI to be better on a
touch-based device.

-Todd

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