No JavaFX for iOS, Android or WP - why not?

[Daniel Zwolenski]

Bad, bad news. Is it true?


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, John C. Turnbull <ozemale at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

> I didn't have the pleasure of being at JavaOne but in a blog by Lucas
> Jellema (and retweeted by Nicolas Lorain) the following is stated:
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> "JavaFX is no longer intended for use on SmartPhones. The iPhone, Android
> and Windows Mobile phones are provided by the respective platforms, there
> is
> no room there for JavaFX. JavaFX is targeted at the desktop to replace
> Swing
> and at smaller devices that run embedded Java."
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> This is extremely disappointing especially after having seen demos of
> JavaFX
> running on iOS and Android devices.
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> Can someone explain why this decision has been made?
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> Thanks,
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> -jct
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