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From: sbaugh@catern.com
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Native graphical Emacs on Android
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:30:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lepyjqtv.fsf@catern.com> (raw)


I would like to be able to use graphical Emacs (e.g. with rendered
images, buttons, menus, etc. rather than Emacs in a terminal emulator)
on Android.

I think this would work best with a native port of Emacs to Android's UI
framework, such that Emacs shows up as a native Android app.  (rather
than running an X server and then running Emacs on top of that, which
works poorly in my experience.)

Note that compiling Emacs to run on Android and render in a terminal or
X server is basically trivial; it's teaching Emacs to render with
Android's UI framework that is hard.

Porting Emacs to any new UI framework is very hard, I know.  I don't
think a fully-native (PGTK-style) port is necessary; something hacky
would be fine.

But I don't know anything about Android.  Has anyone worked on this
before?  Is this at all plausible?

I would be willing to fund development of such a port, if a developer
can be found to work on it.




             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-02 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-02 13:30 sbaugh [this message]
2022-10-02 13:51 ` Native graphical Emacs on Android Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-02 14:13   ` Po Lu
2022-10-02 14:12 ` Po Lu
2022-10-02 16:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-02 18:29 ` Jean Louis
2022-10-12 11:02 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake

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