Thread: Help me to code for Sailfish OS
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2020-06-24 , 06:00
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Originally Posted by rrijken1973 View Post
how difficult is it to port an open source android app to sailfish? Not a lot of apps available so as this has not been done yet, I guess very difficult?

For example, porting over K9 email or even a better browser....
Unless the android app has been created with a cross-platform toolkit (I think there are some that have been done that way?) it is fairly difficult.

The difficulty lies in the fact that Android applications are implemented with their own UI framework and the insides of the applications is done in java, and on Sailfish the UI framework is Silica and QT while the program logic is (usually) c++.

It is most often easier to implement the whole shebang from scratch than try porting.
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