Oh, my bad. It looks like we intended what you said -- so we wouldn't have a full port of Sage on the device at all.
--Christopher On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:08, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>wrote: > On 3/16/12 4:57 PM, Christopher Swenson wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I have a little bit of Android and Sage experience, so I thought I would >> give you a tip or two to get started. >> >> I would imagine that the mentors of this project saw this as roughly >> four phases: >> >> 1. Get up to speed on Android development. This mean download and >> installing the SDK (see >> http://developer.android.com/**sdk/index.html<http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html>and >> then >> http://developer.android.com/**guide/index.html<http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html>to >> help get you on >> your way). I'd recommend spending a little bit getting used to the odd >> way that Android does things, with the Activity and Intent class. But I >> wouldn't worry too much about the details yet -- get to where you can >> build a simple demo app in Eclipse. >> >> 2. Get a little comfortable with Sage's build. Download the Sage source >> from http://www.sagemath.org and build it from scratch, which should >> give you an idea of the packages that it is dependent on. >> >> 3. The hardest part, I would think, is going to be getting all of the >> software Sage needs to be compiled and working in Android. This will >> probably be done through the NDK: >> http://developer.android.com/**sdk/ndk/index.html<http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html>-- >> I presume that the >> only way will be to compile the packages using the NDK, which will wrap >> them in a JNI class. >> >> 4. Then the UI work starts using, I presume the standard Java SDK for >> Android, by creating Activities and Intents. This should hopefully be >> straightforward Android programming. >> >> I would be happy to provide occasional advice to supplement the other >> people on the project, although my experience with the NDK is pretty >> much non-existent. >> >> (I don't mean to hijack Volker or Harald: please chime in if I was >> incorrect or off the mark.) >> > > Is the project to get Sage to run on an android device, or to extend, for > example, the current Android app that talks to a remote Sage server? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/sage-devel <http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel> > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
