Processing 1.0 - Processing Discourse - What about Processing and Android ?

EricRG YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 31	What about Processing and Android ? Sep 27^th, 2008, 11:46am Hello, Is Processing going to work one day on Google Android ?

REAS YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 712 CA	Re: What about Processing and Android ? Reply #1 - Sep 28^th, 2008, 7:20pm We don't have plans to do that right now because we don't have the time. But I hope someone else does. We're currently very occupied working on the 1.0 release.

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: What about Processing and Android ? Reply #2 - Sep 28^th, 2008, 11:29pm I'd very much like to see it happen, and I plan to work on it when I have the time, but like Casey says, we have to finish 1.0 first.

brendanburns

Re: What about Processing and Android ?
Reply #3 - Oct 26^th, 2008, 5:06pm

I'm interested in doing this port. I have a fair amount of experience doing development on Android.

Android has a pretty complete J2SE stack, except for AWT, etc. so we'd need to reimplement the GUI/event stuff.

Do you have pointers to the relevant parts of the processing source base which I should take a look at?

Thanks
--brendan (brendan.d.burns@gmail.com)

Dan_Olner Junior Member Offline Posts: 54 UK	Re: What about Processing and Android ? Reply #4 - Nov 21^st, 2008, 2:36pm I wonder if this is something Google might fund at some point i.e. in the next Summer of Code? An android port of Processing would be amazing - and would make the GUI considerably more flexible.

me_tun YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Australia	Re: What about Processing and Android ? Reply #5 - Jan 30^th, 2009, 2:13am Any word on this port? I too would love to see it done.

Dan_Olner

Re: What about Processing and Android ?
Reply #6 - Jan 30^th, 2009, 9:23am

Note Apple's recent patent of the multitouch interface:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F27%2F024242&from=rss

I can't quite convey how angry that makes me. At any rate, if a port of Processing to Android succeeds, and we can work out how to read multitouch, I'm not sure such a patent would last long through the courts against a horde of open source gestures.

Related: I've been getting excited about using Processing to build gesture interfaces like the outrageously expensive jazzmutant lemur:

http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php

Again, the thought of an open source approach to this is very pleasing to me. Processing already has all the libraries needed to do this, pretty much. What we currently lack is a decent range of multitouch input devices or screens, though that may change in the next couple of years.

Some people have already been controlling their musical devices with an iphone, mind...!

Mondain

Re: What about Processing and Android ?
Reply #7 - May 23^rd, 2009, 9:08pm

I noticed no one had created a porting project for Android, so I emailed Francis Li. He said that he wasn't aware of any active efforts, so I have created a porting project over on google code (search for processing). I am starting with mobile-processing and will move on to processing if successful.
I welcome any input you guys have.

Paul

duckrabbit YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 12	Re: What about Processing and Android ? Reply #8 - Jul 2^nd, 2009, 9:40am I find a project on porting Processing to Android. The name is called : Processor--The native OpenGL implementation of the famous designers' language 'processing' at : 0xlab.org

Joanna Benz

Re: What about Processing and Android ?
Reply #9 - Feb 24^th, 2010, 10:51pm

Mondain wrote on May 23^rd, 2009, 9:08pm:

I noticed no one had created a porting project for Android, so I emailed Francis Li. He said that he wasn't aware of any active efforts, so I have created a porting project over on google code (search for processing). I am starting with mobile-processing and will move on to processing if successful.
I welcome any input you guys have.

Paul

What is the update on this, Paul Have you made progress, or did you decide to drop the project

andrewowaun

Re: What about Processing and Android ?
Reply #10 - Mar 15^th, 2010, 7:57pm

Android support is coming along nicely

http://processing.org/download/revisions.txt

Quote:

[ android mode ]

+ Exception handling is much improved.

+ Get stdout and stderr from the emulator/device (println() now works).
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1381

+ Removed the ANDROID_SDK env variable requirement.
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1471
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1469