Forge for Android?

by **nmeurett** » 08 Feb 2013, 16:33

Hi guys I used to play Forge all the time when I had a PC but now i have switched over to an android based tablet. Is there any way to get forge to work with android? If not someone should really look into making Forge available for android and IOS as I think it would be perfect for a tablet! If this is not possible does anyone know of anything close to Forge that will work with Android? I have tried WAGIC but it blows!

by **friarsol** » 08 Feb 2013, 17:08

I don't see us making an Android/iOS native app anytime soon. There isn't really a dedicated UI developer on Forge's dev team right now, and there would be a lot of code to port over on the UI side of things to do that. I don't believe Android (or iOS) supports Java, which is what Forge is written in. So we would need to do a complete port, which would take forever, and probably burn out anyone that tried to do it.

by **Hellfish** » 08 Feb 2013, 17:37

Allegedly (Google probably cleaned house in this department) there are utilities to recompile java to dalvik (native android basically) but the/one problem is that our UI is written in Swing, whih is not available in dalvik. We'd have to rewrite the entire UI to use a *subset* of Apache Harmony instead of Swing to even attempt recompiling.

Short answer:Possible, but insanely unlikely.

EDIT:I'm in way over my head now but maybe the instructions for repackaging APIs on dalviks google code wiki can be applied to Swing?

EDIT2: Myriads J2Android is probably vaporware. dx is included in the android SDK but I don't know what it's capable of.

by **nmeurett** » 08 Feb 2013, 17:47

Shoot that sucks know of anything like forge that is avail for Android?