as my big working project is hopeful finished next weekend i have some time to do one more try for some useful work from my side to the community. hope this time nobody already started something like this or planning to do so...
i that case. pls leave a comment, i guess it would be better then to join and manage this together as a goal for minetest
As i final bought a tablet the ARCHOS 101 XS i have to face, that minetest wont run under Android ....
the reason is, that the Android systems are based on a different hardware then the most windows and linux systems. so there is no really good working IDE for c++. most of the developing in Android systems are based on java.
the grafik engine of minetest is irrlicht, this engine is written in c++ same like the main code of minetest. so if somebody wants minetest to run under android, he has to port the c++ code from minetest to java and find a possibility to acess the irrlicht engine from java.
if wanted i will document my progress here and keep you updated. i dont know if i will be able to port this to android, but at least i can find out if there are possibilities and maybe other can benefit form this work.Wrapping Irrlicht for Android:it has been ported to android by Laurent Mallet, source code can be obtained from https://gitorious.org/irrlichtandroid/. The code is written in c++ language, but android mainly supports the java language. Using native c++ on android to develop applications is more difficult, and not convenient, especially to debug. For developer to use irrlicht easily, it is best to provide java interfaces.
so far to the plan....