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Since there apparently is a project making it possible to compile Qt apps for Android (http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/), perhaps this also enables KDE software to be ported? Perhaps even the plasma - sort of like how KDE can run without X on Windows and OSX?

In particular, it might be relevant for unorthodox (non-phone) Android devices like the Toshiba AC100 "smartbook" form factor and perhaps tablets. A good office suite like Koffice would complement that form factor quite nicely, but perhaps it could also be a way to explore the mobile implementation of KDE further.

Ps. I did a search but did not see anything similar to this on the fora. Sorry if this has been asked before. Ds.

Good enough, but KDE is just too slow, fat and heavy to be run on a tablet. I looked up, Samsung Galaxy Tablet hast 1 GHz processor. Have fun with KDE on that machine... Unfortunately.

KDE developers are in the process of setting up KDE build profiles that let you build trimmed-down versions of KDE for such systems. There are also lots of efforts going into optimizing KDE performance.

Even that Android use same Linux OS as any other Linux distribution, it is special by the way that any application can not connect to Linux OS but only to Dalvik Virtual Machine. And KDE Platform is not ported to Dalvik so it is impossible. The Dalvik run only applications programmed with Java language. So C/C++ softwares are impossible. The CPU and RAM are enough for KDE Plasma Mobile (should be). But with Android it is as well impossible because Google ripped X11 support away from the Linux OS (=kernel) and so on any software what needs X11 does not work.

"The Google answer on running C/C++ applications on Android from the FAQs is : “No. Android applications are written using the Java programming language”. Very simple answer, but the problem here is for developers and companies having ready to use code and applications for other mobile platform and looking to get their code ported to Android at low cost."

Fri13 wrote:Even that Android use same Linux OS as any other Linux distribution, it is special by the way that any application can not connect to Linux OS but only to Dalvik Virtual Machine. And KDE Platform is not ported to Dalvik so it is impossible. The Dalvik run only applications programmed with Java language. So C/C++ softwares are impossible. The CPU and RAM are enough for KDE Plasma Mobile (should be). But with Android it is as well impossible because Google ripped X11 support away from the Linux OS (=kernel) and so on any software what needs X11 does not work.

"The Google answer on running C/C++ applications on Android from the FAQs is : “No. Android applications are written using the Java programming language”. Very simple answer, but the problem here is for developers and companies having ready to use code and applications for other mobile platform and looking to get their code ported to Android at low cost."

Well the android-lighthouse project linked above is made to compile Qt-apps for Android. I do not know the details, but I think that you have a "support package" using the NDK providing the needed libraries (for example the kdelibs) sort of like portable apps. The difference with native Dalvik apps are probably that you lack the architecture independence that you get from the java-based apps. I suppose the android-lighthouse package deals with the graphics backend so that it displays on the android framebuffer manner rather than via x11.