Barton Stanley <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > I've been asked by a friend to create a mobile app that displays sheet > music in an alternative notation. While it would be a blast to figure > out how to do the engraving from scratch myself, I'd like to show > progress quickly so I am looking at what my options are. LilyPond > appears to be the most comprehensive system but it does not appear to > be available for iOS or Android. > What are my options for using LilyPond in an Android app? > BTW, I am a highly skilled developer with over 30 years of > experience. If using LilyPond in Android will require some highly > technical work, I am fully capable to take on the challenge.
Not sure about how comparable the average Android runtime is to GNU/Linux. The "straight" way to do this would be to add Android to the systems supported by GUB <http://www.lilypond.org/gub>. Since LilyPond has a large number of dependencies, hooking into this cross-system compile architecture is likely to be the easiest path to a _sustainable_ port of LilyPond. For a one-time effort, you can likely instead try to just make a native port and satisfy all build and runtime dependencies manually. If I take at the ongoing investment of developer hours into Git on Windows as compared to LilyPond on Windows, the cross-compiled GUB port seems like a much better bet in the long run. It's also going to be the quite larger challenge, but success will last for a long time. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
