JavaFX port to iOS/Android status

[John C. Turnbull]

Niklas, this is *awesome* work, thanks very much on behalf of the JavaFX
community.

It is very promising that so few changes were required to get things
working.  One thing I noticed in the video was that BrickBreaker animation
performance was a bit choppy i.e. not smooth.  Is this a symptom of the
video itself or does JavaFX run like this on iOS?

Of course I realise that it's only *very* early days so I am sure
performance issues can be improved with prudent optimisation.  I am just
curious to know whether the video gives an accurate picture of what's really
happening...

Anyway, this is the best news I have had in ages!  Keep up the great work!

Cheers,

-jct

-----Original Message-----
From: openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net
[mailto:openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Niklas Therning
Sent: Monday, 13 May 2013 19:37
To: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: JavaFX port to iOS/Android status

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.ht
> > ml
> >
> > Tom
>
>