Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Developing for AWT/Swing and Android portability Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 06:46:02 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:24983 On 8/15/2013 6:18 AM, Qu0ll wrote: > "Martin Gregorie" wrote in message news:kueih9$tfu$1@dont-email.me... > >> Are there any decent compatibility packages that would let a Java >> graphical application compile and run on both Linux and Android >> platforms? >> >> If not, are there any decent Android emulators that can be used to >> develop Android graphical apps under Linux? > > For what it's worth, *all* of my future UI/front-end code written in > Java will be using JavaFX. If you haven't checked it out yet then I > strongly suggest you do. It's actually quite awesome and if you have a > look at the session titles from this year's impending Java One and if > you follow the buzz in the JavaFX developer community you will be > convinced that it's only a matter of time until JavaFX will run on > Windows, MacOS, Linux, ARM and... iOS and Android in the very near future. > > Swing/AWT is officially deprecated and will slowly shrivel and die. > JavaFX is the way ahead and could easily become the *best* > cross-platform SDK in *any* language. > > And loving it, > > -Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct) > _________________________________________________ > Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com > [Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me] Or he could go HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 and save himself the move later? A mobile browser that supports Applets would be REALLY useful though!