On Thursday, 1 June 2017 at 19:31:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
The beta release of ldc 1.3, the llvm-based D compiler, is now
out:
https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases
It is accompanied by a non-trivial sample app from the Android
NDK, ported from C++ to about 1.2 klocs of D: the classic Utah
Teapot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot), updated
with mobile touch controls. This app also demonstrates calling
Java functions from your D code through JNI, though most of it
is written in D.
There are two builds of ldc, a cross-compiler that you can use
from a linux/x64 shell to compile to Android/ARM, and a native
compiler that you can run on your Android device itself. As I
pointed out last year, not only is ldc a large mixed D/C++
codebase that just worked on ARM, but it is possible to build
arbitrarily large Android apps on your Android device itself, a
first for any mobile platform:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ovkhtsdzlfzqrqneo...@forum.dlang.org
This is the way the next generation of coders will get into
coding, by tinkering with their Android devices like we did
with Macs and PCs decades ago, and D is one the few languages
that is already there.
I will write up instructions on how to write an Android app in
D _on_ your Android device by using ldc and the Termux app, and
get ldc into the Termux packages, a package repository for
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=en
Congratulations, Joakim!
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6eqv46/write_mixed_dc_android_apps_even_build_them/
and news.ycombinator.com
Looking forward to termux.
