<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 11:27 AM JLuc <<a href="mailto:jluc@no-log.org">jluc@no-log.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
AMOF, Qt is available for Android :<br>
<a href="https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/android.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/android.html</a><br>
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Does it mean scribus could be natively compiled for android ???<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>From that page I'd say yes. I did not spot anything that looks problematic for Scribus in the list of unsupported features.</div><div><br></div><div>However, compiling it is just the first step. It is quite likely that the UI will be disappointing, because Scribus is designed with a relatively large screen in mind, and I'm not sure how Qt will deal with that. Chances are the UI will need significant rework to be useful on small screen, HiDPI devices.</div><div><br></div><div>My personal Scribus viewing needs on the phone are fulfilled with an existing PDF viewer. My experience with native Wordpad-like editors on Android is unsatisfactory, and that's without the complexity of Scribus. Even making small changes is a pain.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My guestimate is that someone needs to sink a lot of time in getting this to work, and then making it usable. Maybe someone reading this will think, hey, that's a nice challenge!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>With kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Bert<br></div></div></div>