[squeak-dev] [ANN] Squeak on Android

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 11:01:16 UTC 2010


Great news!
I know at least one person who is interested in that - Goran :)

2010/1/18 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Folks -
>
> Sorry for being quiet over the weekend but I was busy with my new toy - a
> shiny new unlocked Nexus One which arrived last week fresh from the Google
> store.
>
> As a result of my weekend distraction you can now download and run Squeak on
> any Android based phone. If you have an Android phone, simply search for
> "squeak" in the Android market place and it should find it right there
> (sorry, Google doesn't seem to give web access to the apps in the store so I
> can't send a link).
>
> Please be aware that this is not a full port yet. It's a weekend effort to
> show the basic feasibility. Lots (and I mean *lots*) of things are still
> missing from a full port (among those is text input and network support to
> name just two of the more glaring ones). However, I would be *very*
> interested to hear if (and how well) it works for other Android-based cell
> phones. So if you have a Motorola Droid or or a T-Mobile G1 give it a shot
> and post some benchmark results.
>
> Performance on the Nexus One is about what one would expect: With roughly 1M
> sends/sec and 30M bytecodes/sec it's not exactly rocking but it's quite
> usable for most tasks on a mobile device. (Input is *terrible* though;
> Squeak's UI is not made for fat-fingered clicks like mine :-)
>
> Since the code itself is quite messy at this point, it isn't published
> anywhere yet. If people are interested in contributing, please let me know
> and I'll share what I have even before it's cleaned up. Be warned though,
> unless you know how to deal with both the Android SDK and NDK, Java, JNI,
> and the Squeak VM it will be a very steep learning curve.
>
> And of course, attached a little screenshot (taken on the emulator; I
> haven't found out how to use my phone to make pictures of my phone :)
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
> PS. I don't recall micro benchmarks on the iPhone - John can you repost
> those to see how well the hardware stacks up?
>
>
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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