JavaFX port to iOS/Android status

[Niklas Therning]

Hi,

I'm the founder of the RoboVM project. Yes, RoboVM uses AOT and yes that's
a real iPad in the video.

/Niklas


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:

> Great to see! Does it mean RoboVM uses AOT to compile the complete OpenJFX
> to native code? Does it work on a real iPad too?
>
>
> Am 13.05.2013 um 10:51 schrieb Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>:
>
> > On 21.04.13 20:12, Tom Schindl wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I think Richard mixup a bit in his list VMs and AOT compilers. XMLVM is
> >> a AOT compiler producing an iOS/Android executable from Java-Class files
> >> (in the end it produces ObjectiveC code which emulates the Stack of the
> >> JVM so the code is not really human readable).
> >>
> >> There are 2 stragegies to run FX on iOS (fairly the same is true for
> >> Android):
> >> * get a VM running on the device (this VM is not allowed to JIT)
> >> * AOT compile your Java app so that it runs without a JVM
> >>
> >>
> >> I currently only know of Avian to run as a JVM on iOS/Android whereas
> >> there are at least 2 AOT compilers:
> >> * XMLVM
> >> * RoboVM (main target is iOS as of now)
> >
> > http://blog.robovm.org/2013/05/javafx-openjfx-on-ios-using-robovm.html
> >
> > Tom
>
>