Re: Embedding LilyPond in iOS app?

[Robert Schmaus]

Hi John,

I'm not an iOS programmer, but fwiw, I remember a discussion about this 
topic from some years back.

One thing that came up is that, in iOS, it's not possible (i.e., 
allowed) to build a iOS lilypond app which is then called from some 
separate text-editor app. Thus if anything, one would have to build an 
editor and have lilypond running in that same app.
And as for inserting Lily output (png) into yet another app, I guess 
that would be forbidden as well, unless you think about pushing the 
output to - say - a Dropbox folder. Thus that app would need to contain 
all viewing capabilities itself, too. And of course there's the thing 
with file storage - Dropbox again?

Let me put it this way, there already was serious interest in having 
Lilypond in iOS, and I'm pretty sure we would have some sort of example 
of that already, if it were a realistic thing to do. That's no proof, of 
course ...

Again, I'm no expert on this, just what I remember.
Best,
Robert



Am 20/05/16 um 05:19 schrieb SNIPER36:
> Hello, I just came across lilypond while looking for a notation library that
> I can embed into an iOS app. I would like a view in my app that shows one
> bar of music notation at a time, and the lilypond file would be created
> programmatically, not by the user. I read the "Inserting LilyPond output
> into other programs" section, and see that I can output a png, which I could
> then display in my app. I'm just not sure how to embed this capability into
> the app, or if it can be done at all. Any help is appreciated.
>
> John
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