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Originally Posted by Quoth
Why Android? The only plus on Android is cheap tablets and the Playstore. Otherwise it's inferior for a custom application to a real Linux. Android has too many bits of Linux missing and the entire point of it is the Java LIKE apps and the Android touch GUI.
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I see a lot of benefits for the OP to go with the android route:
1. There're plenty of tutorials to develop android apps.
2. Toolchains / SDKs are readily available on any major OS
3. Android has a powerful IPC via the binder, and makes communication with 3rd party apps or remote services a joy to program.
4. You can pretty much develop anywhere, using an emulator
5. Because of 3 you don't need to reinvent the wheel: want to display something nicely? you can both repurpose the browser that's available on 99'9% of android devices or wrap something fast on top of system webview.
Prototying an app on e-ink android is faster than building Qt sources for that platform (and adapting qpa plugins for IO). And Qt is pretty much the **only** thing that could make the app as powerful and easy to program as it can be with android frameworks.