RISC OS Emulator for Android
Colin Ferris (399) 1814 posts |
Is there a RISC OS emulator for Android – Tks |
Rebecca (1663) 107 posts |
As far as I understand it. Android is essentially a proprietary distribution of Linux. If that is true it might be possible to compile RPCEmu for Android. Possibly Android might lack some of the libraries of the desktop versions of Linux, making it a wee bit trickier. The challenge might be getting RISC OS to play nice with a touch screen. |
Ronald (387) 195 posts |
The challenge might be getting RISC OS to play nice with a touch screen. With a bluetooth mouse and keyboard the only touch needed is turning my tablet on and off. |
David Gee (1833) 268 posts |
Android uses the Linux kernel but not the GNU userland. Most apps are written for Android’s version of the JVM, nowadays mostly in Kotlin. The majority of the standard libraries will not be available. However I believe that the Qt toolkit can be used to write Android apps; RPCEmu uses Qt… |
Colin Ferris (399) 1814 posts |
Thought it might be useful to find out if RO would work on a Phone. |
Chris Gransden (337) 1207 posts |
Indirectly it works by first installing a Linux distribution. Using for example Andronix and Termux. Then you can build RPCEmu. |