Philippe, Thank you for creating this post. If I wanted to write an app for android in entirely objective-c, could I?
On Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:12:53 PM UTC-5, Philippe Hausler wrote: > > I had started a thread over at the android-porting group, and figured it > might be a better venue to post a request here. > > Recently I have embarked on a project that aims to imbue the Android NDK > gcc 4.2.1 with support for Objective-C 2.0. This project is of course to > bolster the Android platform with more options for developers, and not to > usurp the current application environment (more choices can make better > products). As of the current status of the project, I have been able to > successfully modify gcc to compile not only objc code but also objc 2.0 > code. There are a few features that are still not finished with the > compiler end as well as there are no frameworks that I have finished for > building applications for Android. However that being said there is a > potential for being able to make a directly code compatible set of > frameworks targeted for the Android OS that would allow applications > written for iPhone to be compiled for Android with zero code modifications > to the application, in turn allowing the exact same functionality of the > iPhone counterpart to work on Android. > > This all being the case, I need some feedback from the community. I am not > looking for any sort of comparison of which platform is "better", nor am I > looking for a comparison of which language is "better". > > If you are an iPhone developer and an Android developer: > For any of your iPhone projects, which frameworks would you pose as top > priority to create (other than Foundation and UIKit) > How highly would you rank the need for a gui building interface (perhaps > maybe something in Interface Builder that works then with both NDK based > apps and Java apps)? > > General Android Developers: > Other than arm-eabi targets, what other targets would be on the top of > "must make ports of this compiler"? > Would a objc interface to the Java ui be useful to your projects? > What would be the upper limit of the size of a static library that you > would include within your apps? > Would a dynamic library stored in another application bundle (e.g. > /data/data/com.example/libs/libSomethingGoesHere.so) to save on user space > be preferable? > > People with compiler testing/building experience: > I need help testing the current versions of my fork of the compiler... I > narry could fathom that I could anticipate any and all potential code that > could create an issue with the compiler, I need testing to track down the > bugs (which I know there are already a few). > > The fork of the NDK gcc is being hosted at > http://code.google.com/p/android-gcc-objc2-0/ I have gotten it to work > reasonably so, there are a few things that still are a bit on the squirrly > side, and some stuff that is still just flat out broken. Of the things that > do work: Objective-C code compiles, properties work, synth'd variables > work, private ivars work, blocks work but still need the runtime library > (which i just need to commit the changes to add that). > > Sincerely, > Philippe Hausler > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
