android GUI

[Roedy Green]

I have had a request to port my Canadian Tax applet to Android.

http://mindprod.com/applet/canadiantax.html

did a quick look to try to figure out what would be involved. I
discovered they don't support either AWT or Swing. Any comments on
what the powers of its GUI are? Do you have equivalents to any of the
Swing components?

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

I have had a request to port my Canadian Tax applet to Android.

http://mindprod.com/applet/canadiantax.html

did a quick look to try to figure out what would be involved. I
discovered they don't support either AWT or Swing. Any comments on
what the powers of its GUI are? Do you have equivalents to any of the
Swing components?

Don’t try to think in terms of porting an existing desktop mouse/keyboard-
centric GUI. The constraints of the small screen and the characteristics of
a touch interface are quite different.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I have had a request to port my Canadian Tax applet to Android.

http://mindprod.com/applet/canadiantax.html

did a quick look to try to figure out what would be involved. I
discovered they don't support either AWT or Swing. Any comments on
what the powers of its GUI are? Do you have equivalents to any of the
Swing components?

Check the docs:

http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html

For whatever reason Google must have considered a new API
better for this new type of device than the existing API's.

Arne