A Java-Based X11 Server Comes To Android

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Java-Based X11 Server Comes To Android

An X Server written against the X11 protocol in Java has been made available for Google's Android platform...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA2NzA

[vertex2]

I generally don't bash Java or Android, but this sounds like it's going to be the slowest thing ever imaginable.

[lzap]

I generally don't bash Java or Android, but this sounds like it's going to be the slowest thing ever imaginable.

I dont usually bash stupid comments, but its not Java. Its Dalvik. Huge difference.

[drag]

It's a good thing he didn't ask you then, isn't it?


Personally I know this is going to kick ass. Now finally I can run Debian in a chroot on my phone with a native display manager. No more having to use VNC if I want gui programs.

[uid313]

X11 is a big protocol, but perhaps not all parts of it need to be implemented.
The legacy parts that aren't used on modern systems.

What about Wayland on Android?

[curaga]

There already existed several X servers in Java, such as:
http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/

Might've been easier to port one of those instead of starting afresh methinks

[hoohoo]

All I can say is wow!

Sheer bloodymindedness indeed!

[droidhacker]

Personally I know this is going to kick ass. Now finally I can run Debian in a chroot on my phone with a native display manager. No more having to use VNC if I want gui programs.

I do think that you hit the nail on the head!!!!
The fact is that the missing links are already implemented.

[uid313]

But this is only an implementation of X11.
It is not a full feature-complete implementation, it still has work to do left. But it is promising.

But it does not have Xlib, so you can't run any applications on it.

[VinzC]

I dont usually bash stupid comments, but its not Java. Its Dalvik. Huge difference.

Indeed.

However, tests performed on ARM devices by Oracle with standard non-graphical Java benchmarks on both Android 2.2 and Java SE embedded (both based on Java SE 6) showed that Android 2.2 was 2 to 3 times slower than Java SE embedded.

Sorry, couldn't resist trolling.

When is someone going to write an X11 server in Python or Perl?