On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 10:38:42PM -0500, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > Quoth Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > > > > The problem with the original Hellaphone implementation is that it is > > nailed to the Android APIs of the era, and Google likes to replace those > > approximately weekly. Following their documents, it took me forever to > > get working, but most of the work was on the Android side of things > > (specifically rolling back to whatever supported APIs I needed, almost > > all of which were one or two generations behind). > > > > The other problem, of course, is that the plan 9 user interface > will not work well on phones. No user interface will work well > on phones, but the vanilla Plan 9 interface will be spectacularly > bad. > > So, even if you get the Plan 9 userspace onto the phone, you've > still got a great deal of work to make it usable, and you haven't > successfully gotten rid of the trash under you.
The hellaphone came with some reasonably useful tools to work ok on a touchscreen, including an onscreen keyboard that worked better than the bitsy one. I vaguely recall the HTC device it targeted had a slide-out keyboard as well. khm ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T937367c51de50ce3-M9d260fd1001ee0958edbaf5f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
