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

[Tom Eugelink]

Wow. That indeed would be very bad news!

Tom



On 2012-10-09 08:39, Daniel Zwolenski wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> "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."
>>
>>
>>
>> This is extremely disappointing especially after having seen demos of
>> JavaFX
>> running on iOS and Android devices.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can someone explain why this decision has been made?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> -jct
>>
>>