JavaFX on Android build (instructions)

[tomas.brandalik]

Hi Sebastian,
please would you send the patch to me?

thank you in advance
-Tomas

On 12/02/2013 09:55 AM, Sebastian Rheinnecker wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I just wanted to let you know that I solved the issue with the max 
> method references in the dex files with using multiple dex files. To 
> accomplish this I patched the classes FXActivity and DalvikLauncher to 
> dynamically load the second dex file and its classes. I also patched 
> the build process so that any application jar can be used for this. If 
> anyone runs into the same issue, just contact me.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sebastian Rheinnecker
>
> Am 26.11.2013 14:27, schrieb Sebastian Rheinnecker:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used your instructions with some tweaks to build a JavaFX 
>> application for android on Windows. However, it turns out that 
>> Android's dex format is putting a spoke into our wheel with the 65k 
>> method reference limit. The JavaFX runtime itself already contains 
>> 51k method references and because of that I was not yet able to bring 
>> our full application showcase to android.
>> So if some android expert could contribute to the project by showing 
>> how to use multiple dex files, one containing the javafx runtime and 
>> one for the application, that would be great. Any help on the mailing 
>> list is appreciated as well.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Sebastian Rheinnecker
>>
>> Am 16.11.2013 19:53, schrieb Johan Vos:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Since I (and others) think it is very important that we can have
>>> JavaFX applications running on Android (and IOS, but in this mail I
>>> limit myself to Android), I created a bitbucket project containing
>>> code and build instructions to run JavaFX applications on Android.
>>>
>>> I didn't do much myself. Rather, this project is about providing easy
>>> and consistent build instructions. I combined information from this
>>> mailinglist with information I could find online, and with help from
>>> the JavaFX team.
>>>
>>> The project is here: https://bitbucket.org/johanvos/jfx78
>>>
>>> After I gathered the information, it didn't cost me much time to get
>>> HelloWorld running on my Samsung S3 mini. I never wrote an Android
>>> project before, and I never used the Android SDK or NDK before I
>>> started with this thing almost a week ago. Hence, it is not that hard
>>> to create a JavaFX application on Android.
>>>
>>> This project is far from finished. There are a number of things that
>>> have to be done:
>>> * Improve build instructions
>>> * Simplify build
>>> * Fix bugs (e.g. touch-events are not processed yet)
>>> * Manage the synchronization with the main JavaFX repo
>>> * create plugins for IDE's or maven to automatically build the 
>>> Android packages
>>>
>>> I want to open this project at this early stage, though, since I think
>>> it is important to have more community input. Also, I want to give a
>>> shout to the world that JavaFX on Android is not a dream.
>>>
>>> I hope many of you try out the instructions, improve them, correct
>>> them, and test your applications on Android.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot to all the people on this mailinglist for telling how
>>> they were dealing with JavaFX on Android. Again, I didn't write much
>>> code, but rather tried to combine the information and make it useful
>>> for everybody.
>>>
>>> I know there is an intense debate about the role of Oracle on the
>>> Android (and IOS) ports. Let me close with a similar situation. About
>>> 17 years ago (sigh, time flies), I was involved with the port of Java
>>> to Linux, as part of the Blackdown team. Initially, we didn't get much
>>> help from Sun Microsystems (it was even not easy to get the latest
>>> code). But once we showed that we could run the thing on Linux, and
>>> that many developers were interested in it, Sun started to add
>>> resources on this as well. Eventually, we became obsolete. I hope to
>>> reach the obsolete stage on this project as well.
>>>
>>> Again, the project can be found 
>>> here:https://bitbucket.org/johanvos/jfx78
>>>
>>> - Johan
>>
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