On Oct 13, 2012 10:26 PM, "Chuck Hast" kp4djt@gmail.com wrote:
The question is has anyone tried to port Chirp to Android? These nice big tablets sure make nice screens for the vehicle and the cheaper ones do not cost that much.
No, I haven't tried to port Chirp to Android, but I've thought about it. The trouble is that Chirp is written in Python so not a single line would run on Android without being ported, and further its GUI is pygtk, so would need to be rewritten for the Android GUI (not just a port). The resulting software would resemble nothing of Chirp except the concept.
Of course the next step is a screen for direct entry of the front panel and a real nice proper presentation of a control panel on a touch screen.
This to me seems much more useful than Chirp-for-Android.
Tom KD7LXL