[chirp_users] Chirp for Chromebook

[David Ranch]

That "very soon" is evidently 2017 which is a ways away - 
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9639950/google-combining-android-chromeos-report 
.   Even then, I think I was rightly corrected by Tom Hayward that there 
is a lot more to Chirp than just Python.  It also needs PyGTK where "Py" 
is for Python and "GTK" is the GUI widgets that powers the Gnome 
Xwindows environment.  I didn't find much for this required and that 
makes sense as that really takes Android in a direction that Google 
probably doesn't want.

To the Fldigi point.. that HF digital modes program uses Fltk (Fast 
Light Tool Kit) and native C++.  Fltk depends on Xwindows but Android 
doesn't use Xwindows.  The following thread has more details 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fltkcoredev/pGEIyMOJw84 but the 
synopsis is it's probably not going to happen.   Btw, there are several 
HF digital mode programs available on Google Play but they are usually 
fixed single-mode apps like PSK31, RTTY, SSTV, WX FAX, Navtex, APRS, etc.

--David
KI6ZHD


On 11/17/2015 03:49 PM, Kenneth Bechtel wrote:
> Crome OS is going away, very soon according to Google, it will be merged into Android in the not too distant future.
>
> On November 17, 2015 6:40:38 PM EST, "Nigel A. Gunn  G8IFF/W8IFF" <nigel at ngunn.net> wrote:
>> I'd like to see Chirp (and FLDIGI) written for the Chromebook.
>>
>> I think Chrome apps are written in javascript and HTML.

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