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Re: GSoC: Nmap on Android
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:54:39 -0600
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:55:49PM +0500, Hasanat Kazmi wrote:
I am potential Google Summer of Code student 2010. I want to see possibilities of porting Nmap to Android platform. I favor Android being first mobile platform for Nmap because: Porting is easy: Thanks to Android's NDK (Native Development Kit), it seems possible that Nmap can be compiled using Android SDK. Zenmap or anyother current GUI can not be ported directly, so I assume majority of work would be on developing GUI Android has more usage: (specially as compared to Maemo) Android phones are more in number and are growing, specially people who use Nmap are more likely to have Android device than Maemo, iphone, j2me VMs etc
I agree that if one mobile platform is a lot easier than the others, it makes sense to work on the easy one first. That will give us some experience and possibly make the code more portable in general in the process. I'm curious about why Zenmap can't be ported directly. Is it because Android is missing some dependency, like Python or GTK+? What is the standard way of developing graphical applications on Android? David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- GSoC: Nmap on Android Hasanat Kazmi (Mar 25)
- Re: GSoC: Nmap on Android David Fifield (Mar 26)
- Re: GSoC: Nmap on Android luke jeter (Mar 26)
- Re: GSoC: Nmap on Android David Fifield (Mar 28)
- Re: GSoC: Nmap on Android luke jeter (Mar 26)
- Re: GSoC: Nmap on Android David Fifield (Mar 26)