[Bf-committers] Porting of Blender on Android

[Tom M]

That is wonderful to hear.  Blender is actually primarily C with some libraries and the game engine in C++, and the interface and scripting in python.

As mentioned by another respondent, a google summer of code participant has ported the game engine of blender to android which includes most of the critical library dependencies.  Another student is working on multitouch support, and a third student is updating our opengl calls so that the blender core will only use modern opengl calls.  All of these should make the porting effort feasible, but user interface work will be needed to make it useable.

LetterRip

Srikant <u.srikant.patnaik at gmail.com> wrote:

>Dear Blender team,
>
>I'm writing this mail on behalf of
>Aakash<http://www.iitb.ac.in/AK/Aakash.htm>team, India. The Aakash
>tablet will be made available to students of India
>for approximately less than 25$. This is an Government of India initiative
>and it will benefit millions of students in coming years.
>We are looking forward to port Blender editor on Aakash tablet. So far we
>have succeeded in porting C, Cpp, Python & Scilab on Android 2.3+. Details
>can be found here <https://github.com/androportal/documentation>. As
>Blender is written in Python so we are optimistic about its port.
>Please suggest, is there any present development on Native port of Blender
>editor, or any work in simplifying UI for Android.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>I've marked this mail to Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Prof. D.B Phatak and Prof.
>Pradeep Varma. Also I've included my team mate Sachin Patil.
>
>Srikant
>R.A, IIT Bombay
>India
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