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Hi Maxime,

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 23:13 -0400, Maxime Côté wrote:
My name is Maxime Côté, I'm a student from Québec. I'm interested in
participating in the GSOC this year with LibreOffice. To be more
precise I'm interested in porting it to Android as I already have good
knowledge of Java, C++ and a basic knowledge of Android, but I really
want to learn more about it and the same goes for LibreOffice.

        Wonderful ! :-)

Now what I would like to know is, could JNI (Java Native Interface) be
use to interface with the core library

        Well - I assume we should use the Android NDK:

        http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

        Personally (what with time-to-market etc.) I think we should target the
latest android API version - ie. API level 9 - which gives us a lot of
nice (pre-wrapped) C APIs for talking to the system.

        Sadly these seem hard to browse on-line ;-) but if you poke around in
the downloaded SDK from above:

        platforms/android-9/arch-arm/usr/include/android/bitmap.h

        eg. - I guess a start would be digging around and writing a little code
to convert a LibreOffice basebmp/ BitmapDevice into an android
equivalent.

        Hopefully that handles much of the rendering ;-) Then of course we will
need the critical main-loop integration, to hook the Android loop into
VCL's - ie.

        platforms/android-9/arch-arm/usr/include/android/looper.h

        And, I would copy the approach used in the gtk+ integration (with the
glib mainloop g_main_context etc.) work - should be easy to spot
the_underscore_glib_methods vs. TheStdlCaps LibreOffice ones :-) that
code is in vcl/unx/gtk/app/gtkdata.cxx

 or you see something else, what exactly will need to be ported. Also
I would like to know where do I start in LibreOffice's code, where
could I begin hacking to help me understand the code that will need
porting.

        Sure - so I think the first thing to do, is to get a build, and to
submit your first simple easy hack :-) that should give a flavour for
how LibreOffice is to work on cf.

        http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks

        Also, in part the build process checks out and downloads the full
source tree, which will take some time.

        The code to start digging at is in vcl/ - in particular:

        vcl/unx/headless/svpgdi*

        which -should- already implement much of the code to do our backend
rendering to bitmaps [ which is what we'll need for Android I think ].
That uses the code in basebmp/ extensively, and may need some
improvement (of course), as well as sub-classing for Android [ and the
web project - hopefully if we get someone for that too, there is some
shared overlap here :-].

        So - I hope those are enough pointers to get started in the research.

        It is certainly an exciting project to consider :-)

        ATB,

                Michael.

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