<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Bob, I mean to sound sarcastic, but in a nice way, that it's possible to port gtk to android in the same way that is possible to run Vmware or Wine on android.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>With a lot of work, which is beyond what the chirp project seems to currently be (speaking for myself and my own observations, not on behalf of chirp-devel).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>With that said, I would say with only cursory knowledge of the situation that it would be far easier to port or adapt it to a native gui framework on android.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Again, please feel free to organize a group of developers around the topic and go forth and conquer!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Jens</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bob Nielsen <n7xy@clearwire.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jens J. <kd4tjx@yahoo.com>; Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 20, 2013 5:11 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] Memory requirements, Operating system requirements,<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Android is based on Linux, so porting of PyGTK (which is open source) is a possibility.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Bob, N7XY<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Dec 20, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Jens J. <<a
shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kd4tjx@yahoo.com" href="mailto:kd4tjx@yahoo.com">kd4tjx@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> The key GUI framework is PyGTK which isnt available on android or ios, so it's only for Linux, OSX, or Windows.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> With that said, there are some other gui frameworks, like kivy which look interesting...<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://kivy.org/#home" target="_blank">http://kivy.org/#home</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> But the general answer is, no android and likely wont happen any time soon.<br clear="none">> The chirp codebase is opensource, so that does not stop someone from forking and porting it to android.<br clear="none">> Perhaps they could port it in a compatible way to keep and reuse driver interfaces ;)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> -Jens<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>
From: Milton Hywatt <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mhywattt@yahoo.com" href="mailto:mhywattt@yahoo.com">mhywattt@yahoo.com</a>><br clear="none">> To: Discussion of CHIRP <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>> <br clear="none">> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:57 PM<br clear="none">> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Memory requirements, Operating system requirements,<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Would it be possible to port Chirp to Android? I'd never use it that way, you would need <br clear="none">> a cable driver also. And the tablet would need a type A USB jack. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> From: Tom Hayward <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com" href="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com">esarfl@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">> To: Discussion of CHIRP
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