[maemo-developers] Android Vs. Maemo

[From: Kate Alhola]

Michael Dominic Kostrzewa wrote:
>
>> Android has many good things on it but also what is better
>> and most successful is not so clear.
>>
>> Technically Android is running same SW platform than maemo,
>> so it won't be difficult to run android and maemo applications
>> in maemo devices. If i quess, it wont take long until someone
>> in oss community ports android to N8xx platform.
>>     
>
> Well, this is not really correct. While it runs same operating system
> (just like ie. your washing machine might be running embedded Linux), it
> runs a significantly different SW platform. 
>
> 1) No X
>   
That's no problem. Also Clutter run in maemo even it used OpenGl-ES
directly.
It can run in window or in fullscreen.

> 2) Android is virtual-machine based versus native maemo apps
>   
I don't see any problem on this. We have already Python and Jalimo
> 3) Different toolkit, different object-orientation model, different IPC
> ideas
>   
Different toolkits are mostly usabitity/ look-and-feel problem.
How to get same look and feel to all of them ?

I see most problem coming from this IPC model and how
to adapt Android Activity/Intent/Service/Provider model to maemo .
Basically i think that maemo environment can provide Services and Providers
for Android applications acting as Activities ans Intents.
> While making Android run on nXXX is prolly possible (and we'll see it)
> integrating android applications inside hildon is going to be rather
> hard.
>   
The seamless integration is of course much more work than just quick and
dirty port.

Kate

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