Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice Android Port

I dont think we have to cross compile. We should try and integrate the 
android NDK, which allows native c/c++ compilation, into what we have 
already in LO.

On 06/05/2011 02:27, rcsilva83@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello, Michael
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 14:16, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com 
> <mailto:michael.meeks@novell.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 22:05 -0300, rcsilva83@gmail.com
>     <mailto:rcsilva83@gmail.com> wrote:
>     > Very nice, Michael! I think that, at this moment, a tablet
>     (Honeycomb)
>     > interface is much more needed because it can be a full-featured
>     > version in a market that isn't dominated by MS Office. Additionally,
>     > we already have the "OpenOffice Reader" for smatphones that works
>     > well.
>
>            Sounds good to me :-) I cc'd the dev list incidentally.
>
>
> Great! Very good to CC the list. Jonathan (CC'd) already came to me so 
> we can work together on this.
>
>
>     > What do your think? Can I focus on that?
>
>            Certainly. In fact Android for tablet or mobile would need
>     to use the
>     same rendering approach anyway I think, so - I wouldn't worry about
>     that.
>
>     > What about the initial code? Can I commit to a GitHub repository? Do
>     > you suggest some place else?
>
>            Oh - well; if you git clone the repos, then you can commit
>     to your
>     local git repository of course.
>
>            As/when you have something that is more generally useful we
>     can get
>     that into master, as/when it starts to be interesting for others
>     to work
>     with you - we'll get a commit account setup so you can push to a
>     feature
>     branch.
>
>
> Perfect.
>
>
>            How does that sound ? For the while - I suggest you work in
>     your own
>     git repo, (and I'd recommend getting a Linux build working first so
>     you're familiar with the build etc.) - and then look at the
>     cross-compilation.
>
>
> Good ideias and I'll follow your advices.
>
>
>            Some other thoughts are: perhaps as a first set of tasks -
>     we would
>     want to have a -very- cut-down build mode: that throws away lots of
>     pieces that we don't want: to save size, eg. I don't think 'base'
>     belongs on a tablet (with hsqldb), nor binfilter, nor rhino or
>     beanshell, no wizards, and no templates. Possibly our older filter
>     formats: lwp, wpd, works, dbase,  etc. could be thrown overboard too.
>
>            Possibly it would make sense working on creating a
>     distro-config/ file
>     (that we can use with autogen.sh) that builds an absolutely minimal
>     LibreOffice - with as much minority feature-weight removed as
>     possible.
>     Potentially that means adding new compile options to disable
>     things (eg.
>     the Java wizards). Possibly we would want to also be able to cut out
>     things un-needed in a reader - such as the gallery eg.
>
>
> I couldn't agree more with you!
>
>
>            All of that should be easy to write and test, on a stock
>     Linux machine
>     without worrying about cross-compilation etc.
>
>
> I hope so :)
>
>
>            ATB,
>
>                    Michael.
>
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>
>
>
> Thank you very much and I keep you up to date.
>
> Regards,
> --
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