[GNC] Has the Android APP abandoned?

[Geert Janssens]

I believe both Qt and wxWidgets have android support.

Switching to another gui framework has been discussed in the past. While it's 
still a long term goal, it's not the only roadblock to having a gnucash app on 
android that shares code with gnucash on the desktop.

It requires a big refactoring of the core non-gui internals as well. The 
conversion to C++ is the an important aspect of this, which unfortunately got 
mostly stalled after the 3.0 release due to all the issues we have had with 
the forced upgrade to gtk3 (which was forced upon us by the removal of webkit1 
from most distros close to the 3.0 release).

Perhaps the C++ conversion doesn't have to be complete. There are two aspects 
that currently likely block a port to android (or ios for that matter):
* some functionality is written in scheme instead of C(++). That can't be 
ported and has to be rewritten.
* most of the code is heavily dependent on glib2, which we think is a major 
hurdle to porting as well.

Good news is work on the C++ port is slowly picking up again.

Regards,

Geert

Op donderdag 19 september 2019 12:07:53 CEST schreef Greg Feneis:
> Perhaps there is a FOSS GUI platform similar to GTK that includes all of
> the usual target OSes plus Android?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
> 
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:08 AM Andrea Briganti <kbytesys at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You hit the main point of my initial post.
> > 
> > Who visit the website believes that it is the official android application
> > and that it's maintained currently.
> > 
> > If the community can't (won't) take the ownership of the app, I think that
> > we have just to remove the banner in the homepage.
> > 
> > > Returning to the bit that said the gnucash website is promoting the
> > > android
> > > app - considering the android app seems to be abandoned, should we
> > > remove
> > > the
> > > reference from our website or at least indicate it's currently
> > > unmaintained ?
> > 
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> > | /
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