Re: GSoC: Nmap on Android

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

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
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