[PD] smartphone advice

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Everything works but audio input and output, but that's in the works.   
Externals work too, if you use a jailbroken device, you don't need to  
heed Apple's lame restrictions.

.hc

On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:39 AM, Si Mills wrote:

> SO this is certainly interesting
>
> When you say Pd builds for Android and iphone, but no audio, what  
> does that mean? THe pd gui works?
>
> I have a feeling, in the end, i might play devils advocate and go  
> with the android phone.........
>
> On 29 Oct 2009, at 18:17, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> THere are a number of developments in this regard:
>>
>> - Pd (pd-gui-rewrite 0.43 branch) now builds directly for Android  
>> and Apple iPhoneOS.  Maemo should be pretty easy too.  No audio  
>> yet, but that's in the works.
>>
>> - Pd has been available in the Debian-armel branch for a while,  
>> that means lots of devices if you are willing to install your own  
>> OS.  You can install Debian in parallel with Android.
>>
>> - you can build PDa to run on a wide range of free distros, like  
>> Maemo, Familiar, Angstrom, OpenMoko, reware for ipods, Palms, etc.
>>
>> rjdj runs well on iPhoneOS, so that means Pd can be made to work  
>> well there.  Android will take a fair amount of work to get up to  
>> the same level, but in the long run will probably be easier since  
>> the platform is a lot more open.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:34 PM, marius schebella wrote:
>>
>>> same problem here, not sure what to get.
>>> another device that might be worth checking out is the nokia n900,
>>> which is/was scheduled for release some time this year. it runs  
>>> maemo
>>> (nokia's linux version) and - at least on former versions of maemo -
>>> it was possible to get pd-anywhere running.
>>> But I have not seen/tested it, so I cannot promise anything.
>>> for now: I am not sure about the palm, the android g1, g2 both do  
>>> not
>>> run pd (yet...) and I think windows mobile neither, leaves the  
>>> iphone.
>>> marius.
>>>
>>> 2009/10/29 Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:33:24PM +0000, Si Mills wrote:
>>>>> to Android as a platform, even though there is bog all for it at  
>>>>> the
>>>>> moment, but I feel there is going to be a massive explosion on  
>>>>> that front
>>>>> soon,
>>>>
>>>> I also feel that, and I can see some people lighting the TNT.
>>>>
>>>> Chris.
>>>>
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