Re: gtk apps on iOS/Android?

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com> wrote:
> On 09/07/2012 07:40 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > I'm contemplating trying to produce a version of my gtk app
> > for tablet use. Can anyone point me to relevant resources or
> > examples? At this point I'm totally clueless about porting to
> > tablets (though I'm able to build my app for OS X OK), and I
> > haven't found googling to be very useful.
>
> Basically you'll want to get a book on developing android apps, download
> the sdk, and go to town.  All in Java of course.  And using the Android
> UI toolkit.  GTK+ is not available on Android or iOS, nor will it likely
> ever be.  Use the native toolkits.

interesting, wouldnt the quartz backend for osx build for iOS ?

not exactly sure but I think the NSView and highlevel cocoa stuff
is built upon the same low level windowing apis that are available
on osx...