Bob, I mean to sound sarcastic, but in a nice way, that it's possible to port gtk to android in the same way that is possible to run Vmware or Wine on android. With a lot of work, which is beyond what the chirp project seems to currently be (speaking for myself and my own observations, not on behalf of chirp-devel).
With that said, I would say with only cursory knowledge of the situation that it would be far easier to port or adapt it to a native gui framework on android. Again, please feel free to organize a group of developers around the topic and go forth and conquer! -Jens
________________________________ From: Bob Nielsen n7xy@clearwire.net To: Jens J. kd4tjx@yahoo.com; Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Memory requirements, Operating system requirements,
Android is based on Linux, so porting of PyGTK (which is open source) is a possibility.
Bob, N7XY
On Dec 20, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Jens J. kd4tjx@yahoo.com wrote:
The key GUI framework is PyGTK which isnt available on android or ios, so it's only for Linux, OSX, or Windows.
With that said, there are some other gui frameworks, like kivy which look interesting...
But the general answer is, no android and likely wont happen any time soon. The chirp codebase is opensource, so that does not stop someone from forking and porting it to android. Perhaps they could port it in a compatible way to keep and reuse driver interfaces ;)
-Jens
From: Milton Hywatt mhywattt@yahoo.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Memory requirements, Operating system requirements,
Would it be possible to port Chirp to Android? I'd never use it that way, you would need a cable driver also. And the tablet would need a type A USB jack.
From: Tom Hayward esarfl@gmail.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Memory requirements, Operating system requirements,
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:25 AM, David M. Calpino davidm.calpino@gmail.com wrote:
Can I program my Baofeng Radios with 16GB Android tablet?
No, Android can't run PyGTK, which Chirp is built on.
Tom KD7LXL
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