19 Dec
2014
19 Dec
'14
6:13 a.m.
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(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Set Hallström
<sakrecoer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recently acquired a Sony Xperia tablet (apparently running jellybean) and so
far I've yet to find *anything* I can use it for :(
Thank you for your input, Paul.
Tablets have (a) no keyboard (b) no concept of pointer motion without a
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. 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.