JavaFX port to iOS/Android status

[Niklas Therning]

The iPad you see in the video has been jailbroken but I can confirm that
BrickBreaker also works on my non-jailbroken iPhone5. Didn't want to use
that though in the video since you only see the upper left corner of the
screen. :-)


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Niklas Therning <niklas at therning.org>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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