[PD] Free/open mobile platform for Pd?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Just getting Pd on the Android phone would be easy, especially if you  
have rooted it.  Basically, Pd-vanilla should build and run fine on  
Android with some minor tweaks for Android-specific macros.  The only  
tricky part is that Pd can't use Android's ALSA, it must use the Java  
audio API via JNI.  So that would take custom code.

Once its built and has the C->Java JNI audio interface, then it  
shouldn't be hard to package it up and distribute it as a regular  
Android app.

http://puredata.info/docs/developer/BuildingPdForAndroid

.hc

On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

> Hallo!
>
> I just got an android phone (linux) and was actually quite impressed.
> It is very user-friendly and there are also good development tools  
> (I did not program something so far, but I will ...)
>
> However, I don't know how easy it is to port PD to android phones.  
> The general platform is in java (because it should run hardware  
> independent on many phones) and it's also possible to program in C -  
> but then you maybe have to adjust your code manually to different  
> phones ... I don't know ...
>
> For development on android see: http://developer.android.com/
> BTW, there are also thousands of applications already, see e.g. http://www.cyrket.com/ 
> , also some nice basic sound apps ...
>
> LG
> Georg
>
> Otto Maddox schrieb:
>> Recently I looked at RjDj and was well impressed. Now I want to get a
>> mobile device on which to run Pd to do similar things. An iPhone is  
>> out
>> of the question because it's such a closed and locked up platform. I
>> started looking around at other devices, but that was a bit
>> overwhelming.
>> Maybe it's just because I'm new to the world of mobile computing and
>> have missed something, but I couldn't find a single mobile
>> hardware/software platform which is properly Free/open from top to
>> bottom (i.e., friendly to people who don't mind getting their hands
>> dirty), actively maintained, doesn't require me to screw myself  
>> over by
>> taking on a contract which I can't afford (internet tablet would be
>> ideal), and runs Pd. Is PDa still being developed?
>> Am I asking for too much? Or is what I want already out there?
>
>
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