OpenJFX on iOS using RoboVM

[Niklas Therning]

Source code and build instructions for the BrickBreaker JavaFX sample on
iOS/RoboVM is now available online [1]. The static libs included in that
download have been compiled from my fork [2] of Danno Ferrin's JDK7
backport of openjfx [3]. For build instructions please see [4].

[1]
http://blog.robovm.org/2013/05/brickbreaker-javafx-sample-on-ios-robovm-source-code-released.html
[2] https://bitbucket.org/ntherning/jfx78
[3] https://bitbucket.org/narya/jfx78
[4] https://gist.github.com/ntherning/5613607

/Niklas


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Niklas Therning <niklas at therning.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'll clean up the code and post it somewhere later this week. We're not
> using OpenJDK's class libraries. It's Android's.
>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:38 PM, <steve.x.northover at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Niklas!!!
>>
>> This is very cool.  Please make your work available as soon as possible
>> so others can try it out.  I have played a bit with RoboVM and looked into
>> what would be required to port JavaFX to it but did not get the time to do
>> a deep dive.  Are you using the OpenJDK for the class libraries?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 13/05/2013 5:32 AM, Niklas Therning wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've managed to get OpenJFX running on iOS using RoboVM. Please see the
>>> RoboVM blog [1] for a quick video of it.
>>>
>>> I'd like to say thank you for writing such great code! BrickBreaker
>>> almost
>>> worked out of the box! I had to remove/stub out font related stuff of
>>> course and PlatformLogger had to be copied from OpenJDK. Also had to fix
>>> a
>>> tiny bug in the native glass code [2] and an NPE in
>>> PlatformUtil.getRTDir()
>>> when PlatformUtil.class isn't available in any jar file [3].
>>>
>>> Do you have an ETA on the open-sourcing of the font related code? It
>>> would
>>> be a fun challenge to get most of the controls or even the Ensemble
>>> sample
>>> to work but fonts are essential of course.
>>>
>>> [1] http://blog.robovm.org/2013/**05/javafx-openjfx-on-ios-**
>>> using-robovm.html<http://blog.robovm.org/2013/05/javafx-openjfx-on-ios-using-robovm.html>
>>> [2] https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/**browse/RT-30327<https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30327>
>>> [3] https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/**browse/RT-30329<https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30329>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Niklas Therning
>>>
>>
>>
>