This page to collect information about the interest of the community to combine development effort to get tcl/tk on Android platform.
Why do we need this tcl/tk on Android?
It's becoming a huge platform:
We have
| Mobile phones |
| Cheap Tablets less then 80 euros |
| In the near future android in TV-sets |
| A projector already exists with Android inside. |
| ... |
Tcl/Tk isn't available on these platforms.
People have no problems to install apps. So they migrate away from webcentric which is great for tcl/tk.
What is already available to us: We have jtcl and hecl to start from. My feeling is Hecl is the most closely what we need/want but isn't 100% compatible. A wrapper should be added to Hecl to add TK syntax.
Please add yourself to following table if you are interested to help to get development forward.
| Nickname | Java knowledge | tcl knowledge | docs | test/feedback |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nobel | minor | good | minor | a lot of physical android devices available |
| ... |
chw - 2013-03-27 12:41:16
chw: What about porting Tcl/Tk native on Android? There's an SDL port for Android on http://libsdl-android.sourceforge.net and there's a SDL backend for Tk on http://wiki.tcl.tk/4607 .
MG doesn't know exactly what's involved, and certainly lacks the skills to contribute to such an endeavour himself, but would really love to see Tk ported to Android if at all possible.
MiR: Just wanted to support this. I actually have an old EEE PC as my mobile workhorse and I use lot's of little TCL-TK apps for my needs. What keeps me from upgrading is the lack of Tcl/Tk support on Android and I don't want to hack a tablet into Linux. A native port would be great, rewriting all apps /to hecl or jtcl) is near impossible to me.