[LAU] Just got Android tablet for Christmas

[Kelly Hirai]

csound has a port for android.
pd has something for it too.
there are osc apps if you want to make button boxes.

kelly

On 12/18/2014 12:30 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:25:02 -0500
> Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Set Hallström <sakrecoer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you for your input, Paul.
>>>
>>> Tablets have (a) no keyboard (b) no concept of pointer motion without a
>>>> drag (c) no concept of hover (d) much less screen real estate (e)
>>>> multitouch (in some cases, at least). that is enough of a set of changes
>>>> that any desktop application which took advantage of some of the scale of a
>>>> desktop system will likely need to be reconceived fairly deeply.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What you write makes perfect sense, i guess that would explains why this
>>> smartphone/tablet thing has been arround for so long and it still is so
>>> difficult to run alternative non-proprietary software on them...? Just like
>>> it took several years for GNU/Linux distros to lower themselves to my
>>> acutaly quite poor level.
>>>
>> In the case of Android, there is also the fact that Google chose to make
>> Java the runtime environment. It isn't impossible to build and run "native"
>> (i.e. non-Java) applications for Android, but the platform certainly isn't
>> on your side if you want to do this. This means that "simple" ports of
>> desktop applications (at least those not written in Java already) is not
>> necessarily trivial, and could actually be quite hard.
>
> I recently acquired a Sony Xperia tablet (apparently running jellybean) and so
> far I've yet to find *anything* I can use it for :(
>