Qgis on android?

[Tyson]

Would anybody be interested in porting Qgis to the android mobile platform as a replacement for ArcPad? I'd like to give it a try so if you want to contribute let me know.

[21giser]

any answer? I am very interested on this replacement for ArcPad too.

[FiReSTaRT]

That would be a sweet addition if implemented.

[FiReSTaRT]

It looks like Garmin is already getting us half-way there... http://androidcommunity.com/garmin-rele ... -20081222/

[FiReSTaRT]

Actually, if we get it to work, with proper PostGIS data sync capabilities, on the right platforms, we could have a proper replacement for ArcGIS Mobile.

[JIKleppe]

This would be awesome. What would need to be in place though, is more than just QGIS. All the dependencies would have to
be done too. And how much can really be gained from Androids Linux heritage?

[warrieka]

Andriod only really supports java as a programming language, as QGIS is QT/C++ app, nearly impossible to do, i think.
Unless nokia would agree on supporting andriod on qt, and reach an agreement with google on this.

But nokia's Symbian and maemo platforms support most of qgis dependencies (qt, sqlite, gdal ), so it should be possible to devellop a mobile version for them, in theory at least.

Anyway gvSIG mobile already run's on maemo and WinMo, and because its java it could be ported to android to(in theory).
http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/

[JIKleppe]

What about the Nexus One, which has the most "vanilla" Android? Google has also released a dev kit for c/c++

http://agrotime-blog.com/2009/06/27/and ... c-dev-kit/

although at the time being it does still seem to involve rather too much work for next to no gain...
Let's hope things will change...

gvSig is of course an alternative since it has already got a pretty functional mobile version (got it running on my Sony Ericsson).
but I would very much love to see at least some QGIS functionality in an Android app supporting for instance digitizing data.

[JIKleppe]

Here's some more info on Android development. Not that cheerful reading, but here's to hoping it will evolve in a positive direction!

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/revi ... lopers.ars


EDIT:

And here's a link on the scripting environment which is slightly more exciting:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2 ... pting.html

[JIKleppe]

The things you find when you bother to look...

Seems like there's already work underway on QT for Android:

http://www.newlc.com/node/23522

http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... c68746dab1

http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/

looks like it's related to QT on Nokia and/or Symbian...

Anywhichway - this is cool, and looks promising if not for a full blown QGIS port, then at least (maybe?) for a QGIS application?