Contributor - porting to smartphones

Description

This idea would be to port Scilab on Smartphone.

The port of Scilab-cli would be the first step (this involves the port of all Scilab dependencies
Port of Scilab graphic features
Port the Tcl/Tk link
Reach the same features as the main binary.

Due to the lack of expertise of the writer of this page, it is hard to tell if it will be possible or not to execute Scilab on such devices.

Android

Some people started this work: SciForAndroid & the documentation

iPhone

Symbian

Common potential problem

JVM / Native code

One of the potential problem is to port the link to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Scilab is pretty specific here: Scilab native code instantiate a JVM from the native code and this can be tricky.

A test case is attached to this page: JVM_Native_code.tar.gz