Android and Windows phones are possible target platforms for an A8 mobile version, and we're indeed looking into this. The iPhone is not so suited.

lite-c on android. Sounds great.

The differences between the executable formats of various operating systems is no big deal at all but Lite-C would need a back-end for the ARM processor architecture.

Why would MDL be too heavy? It would work just fine but of course it would make sense to use some kind of compression.

compression would require decompression on runtime, thats not a very good idea either.

I was actully tired to say ENTITY, that has to be changed for mobile purpose like instead of 100, 20 skills etc.

and functions like ent_animate with bone animation are heavy functions too. I guess JCL will rework this stuff so they are less performance hungry in mobile version.

There are very cheap decompression algorithms. Most importantly for textures...

The ENTITY struct isn't big. It takes 4KB or something like that. 100 skills or 20 make no difference.

Bone animation is expensive but there is no magic trick to make it faster. I don't know if it can be done on mobile GPUs. Probably the newer ones with shader support can accelerate it. Otherwise simply use much cheaper vertex animation instead.

You have to live with the fact that your games have to be much simpler but this isn't really an engine thing. The engine would need to support OpenGL ES and Lite-C ARM processors but not much else would have to change.

Oh, and PhysX isn't really platform independent. The Unity developers have a source code license and ported it to the other platforms themselves.

iPhone would make me happier, since I do not want to buy an Android phone, even if i would be simpler to sell anything there(the market for android games is much smaller than the App-Store for the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad).

But android is already a nice feature, thanks jcl

I have an iPod touch 32GB and an Android phone (HTC Magic).

compare to Android Market and iTunes, overall I like Apple online market system more.

It's not about market "system", it's about your "chance" on the store, which pretty higher in Android market.

How to buy apps in Android Market? In Apple Appstore it is much easier and convenient, so it is higher chance to reach customer.