iPhone port of Alchemy

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Re: iPhone port of Alchemy

Postby Steren on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:33:49 GMT

Hello,
I'm an Android developer (see http://remixthem.steren.fr for more info on my project) and can talk about a possible "Android port".

Android apps are in Java, but many things that you find in JSE don't exist in Android. (see the packages available in the References section of http://developer.android.com)

This implies that :
- All that is using AWT should be ported to Android SDK (interface and canvas)
- All the PDF stuff should be removed because libraries don't exist for Android (or they have to be ported too)

I think that porting Alchemy to Android would be like writting it from scratch using the Android SDK. Only the architecture and ideas of the program could be kept.
So before wanting to create a software in the mind of Alchemy ("new ways to explore painting"), maybe a simple vector painting software can be written first (and open-sourced). Then alchemy-like functionalities could be added (modules that affect the pen and effects).

I will investigate how hard it would be to do this.
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