Do Androids dream of wxWidgets?
Posted on by Vadim Zeitlin
Don’t know about androids to be honest but I’d definitely love to be able to
develop applications using wxWidgets that could run on both iPhone (which is
already kind of possible) and Android and also reuse at least parts of their
code with desktop versions. Unfortunately Android doesn’t exactly encourage
developing in C++ but things seem to be slowly moving in the right direction and
the last NDK release allows to implement GUI applications entirely in C++ by
providing the new NativeActivity class.
There is still no convenient access to native widgets but we can use Java classes from C++ code via JNI and we could even automatically wrap them using something like JCC. So at least in principle it seems that there are no obstacles to implementing a working wxAndroid port. And at least wxUniversal could be ported without using JNI at all and just using OpenGL for drawing.
All we need right now are the volunteers (and/or donations…) to make it happen. For me personally it would be one of the most interesting things to do after releasing wxWidgets 3.0.