| Re: [emf-dev] Ported EMF to the Android platform |
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Hui, Sorry for taking too long to reply. It's hard to keep up these days and somehow your note ended up being marked as read before I replied... More comments below... Hui Song wrote: I wonder what's involved in that? I know folks have tried porting for GWT...Dear EMF developers, As a part of a small project, I managed to port the EMF code into the Android platform. Very cool. :-)As you may know, Android is a mobile operation system, which employs a Java-compliant language and virtue machine named Dalvik. After some modifications to the source code, the core EMF packages (including emf.common, emf.ecore, emf.ecore.xmi) can now be compiled by Dalvik, and work well on an Android mobile phone. This sounds cool. I wonder if anyone has ideas about how best to keep two streams in sync.To show the uages of EMF on Android, I tried to wrap the main management capabilities of Android system as an Ecore model, so that we can write ocl rules to query the runtime information from an Android mobile phone, like "listing all the running activites", "counting all the clients", "listing the current wifi channels", as shown in the attached snapshots. If you have any interest, I will be very glad to contribute this work in any ways (e.g. as a branch, a sandbox, a emft project, and any other ways). It's certainly not a bother. I'd like to learn more about what kinds of changes were necessary. I suppose in an ideal world, one could specify the changes as a transformation so that one could automatically produce an Android compatible version from the common base...If not, please forgive me for bothering. Let's start by opening a bugzilla and attaching the stuff you want to share under Eclipse Public License. I'd definitely be interested in creating an EMFT project for this! Sincerely! Hui SONG Nov. 30 |
