Re: [LAD] Android audio plugins

[snip a load of guff...] The apps should still work with float as they would on any platform. LV2 nor LADSPA are going to add much overhead as they do not manipulate floats. Then don't do them. The apps should process floats. The ARM softfloat overhead is not that great and the coding required to get access to the GPUs is suitable that developers will implement them for optimisations. I think Android is trying to avoid wheels altogether, wheels are very old hat. Android is not Linux and you need to understand the difference between an app and an application. So are you suggesting the people who have phones, who don't want to contend with installing Linux on them, will still want to contend with trying to gets apps to interoperate with LV2 or LADSPA? Apps don't do much interoperation so you are looking at one humongous can of worms and all that for very little gain when there are ready made apps that provide a lot of that combined functionality. Linux, LV2, LADSPA, plugins, disposable audio interfaces are all for people who are up for a challenge. The app model was designed for all the hundreds of millions of handset owners who for the very, very largest part have zero interest in being confronted with this level of complexity. Why do you want to introduce it? For the tiny minority who are interested in doing this on handsets/tablets then native Linux ports are the probable attractive option. Regards, nick