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I never said getting a jvm to run well on android was trivial (though jvm has been run on android, i.e. see phoneme as I mentioned, which I have also gotten to run, though getting it to run simple command line programs is different than getting it to run the full j2me suite that bdj needs). What I did say is that there's no real market demand for a jvm on android as people can just compile whatever java code they have to davlik and that's why we don't see it.
I've also seen very little (really, if any) community effort in getting a jvm running on android, so I don't think one can say "many smart people have tried". the closest is phoneme, but that never really had much pickup on android, it was always more popular on WinCE. heck, even libbluray doesn't have much of a community around it. It's basically 1 guy.
I've been waiting for that JVM on Android in order to get menus since it came out years ago. Let me know when you figure it out, but I won't be holding my breath, a lot of skilled people have been looking into it and gave up, so it must not be as trivial as you make it sound. I sure can't wait for your solution to prove me wrong.
As for non java menus, it's like 10% of my library at best. I know I'm probably in the minority wanting menus on both blu-ray and uhd blu-ray, but for me it's a must-have feature, much more important than a movie wall even.
I never said getting a jvm to run well on android was trivial (though jvm has been run on android, i.e. see phoneme as I mentioned, which I have also gotten to run, though getting it to run simple command line programs is different than getting it to run the full j2me suite that bdj needs). What I did say is that there's no real market demand for a jvm on android as people can just compile whatever java code they have to davlik and that's why we don't see it.
I've also seen very little (really, if any) community effort in getting a jvm running on android, so I don't think one can say "many smart people have tried". the closest is phoneme, but that never really had much pickup on android, it was always more popular on WinCE. heck, even libbluray doesn't have much of a community around it. It's basically 1 guy.