JavaFX on iOS and Android - are we there yet?

[Pedro Duque Vieira]

Hi Felix,

I think you can just forget any official statement from Oracle on this.
It's not their way of working. And there appears to be some legal issues
that made Oracle cancel the javafx sessions on ios and android at javaone.

The javafx team is indeed working on this however no official statements
about this work are coming out.

I believe Oracle should get some info out unofficially, perhaps by
"accidentally" putting some articles on the openjfx wiki, or somewhere else
:-). It would be nice to know what's missing and where can the community
help to speed things up.

Thanks, best regards,


Hi Richard,
> Undoubtedly you are aware of the buzz and confusion regarding possible
> porting of JavaFX to iOS and Android and in an effort to calm the masses
> and give us all a little hope, would you be kind enough to provide
> definitive answers to the following questions?
> 1. Can you provide me with a detailed summary of where the iOS/Android
> ports are currently?  This includes the platform specific stuff to make
> either RoboVM or an Oracle JVM work?
> 2. Are the iOS and Android ports at roughly the same level of
> completeness/viability?
> 3. Exactly what is left in making these ports viable?  Here the word
> "viable" is defined in my 6 Degrees of Separation post here
>
> http://justmy2bits.com/2013/09/30/javafx-on-ios-and-android-six-degrees-of-separation
> I know it's a pain to have to attempt to pacify the mob but I am sure I
> speak on behalf of all JavaFX developers when I say that many of us have
> serious financial or personal investment in JavaFX and *need* to know that
> a mobile/tablet future is indeed possible.
> Thanks,


> Felix

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Pedro Duque Vieira