Re: GNUstep Handheld

[David Chisnall]

On 07/05/2020 05:49, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Hey guys... I'd really like to start development on a (UIKit compatible 
> or not) backend for Android which will allow the creation of GUI apps. 
> Ideally what I would like is something that extends UIKit if possible. 
> Since we are talking about this just my $0.02.

FYI: WinObjC has an MIT licensed UIKit and it's been used to port 
Android apps to Windows.  It isn't very actively maintained anymore, but 
it uses the GNUstep Objective-C runtime.  The code contains a load of 
Windowsisms, but it was originally very portable (it uses freetype for 
font rendering, for example, rather than anything Windowsy).  If you 
want an Android UIKit, this would probably be a good place to start.

Note that it's a modern Objective-C++ codebase.  I suspect that they'd 
be interested in accepting patches for non-Windows operating system 
support, if it kept the project alive.

David