[🤖] Android port

[GoogleCodeExporter]

We need an Android port of this NOW. There is SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR THIS!!! 
Just... take my word for it. YOU NEED THIS.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 2 Jan 2015 at 9:30

[InfamousKnight]

Something I found that could be useful: https://github.com/dotnet/android

After I typed in terminal: dotnet workload install android, bizhawk no longer compiles..

Android almost replaced my laptop, except it cant run bizhawk yet.

[YoshiRulz]

Several things wrong with that: That's a library, not a target; we can't simply add net8.0-android because that's a .NET Core TFM; and modern WinForms targets net8.0-windows only.

[InfamousKnight]

And to make this work on android would require converting all the winforms to android equivalent? Like the hotkeys windows be changed to a list view?

If that's the case, it would be easy, just tedious

[YoshiRulz]

To migrate off of WinForms, yes you would need to recreate every window, but also all the logic associated with them, bug for bug. And since the huge classes MainForm and PresentationPanel/DisplayManager are so integral to the app, that's a lot of work that needs to be done up-front before you can get any features working.

[InfamousKnight]

I see. It would make more sense to use google's linux vm instead for android. It requires android 15 which i don't have yet...

It's still under active development.