[GAP Forum] GAP on ipad

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 10:19:38AM +0100, KCHM wrote:
> In the October 2014 issue of `Linux Format' there are instructions on
> how to install an independent Linux distribution on an android phone,
> without doing a full scale root. If this works (I haven't tried it
> myself) it should mean that one can run GAP within one's own Linux 
> (not the android incarnation) on the phone. 

Apple iPhones are significantly more closed than Android phones.
Indeed you can run PARI/GP on an Android phone without rooting it:
<http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/download.html#paridroid>

It should not be hard to cross-compile GAP for Android and run it in
an Android shell.

Cheers,
Bill