On 28 January 2012 18:19, H. S. Teoh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:34:22PM +0200, Manu wrote: > [...] > > Since Android 2.3 it has been possible to run fully native apps, and a > > GDC for android will work just as well as any C compiler, although > > some work will have to be done to produce bindings for the NDK > > libraries. What I'm most excited about is being able to use D to wrap > > the NDK libraries to create an android experience that's very similar > > to the Android Java API's, but with native code throughout. > > +1 to this. I've been looking forward to getting an Android (either > phone or tablet) and writing apps for it. If I can write apps in D, that > would simply be awesome. (And you never know, maybe it will be an > Android killer app that will make D really take off... ;-)) > > As far as I know, gdc can already produce ARM code since it uses the gcc > backend. All we need now is a nice native D interface to the Android > libraries, and I'll be a very very happy man.
Libraries are the easy part. If you can make a build-script that 'just works' for the average man, and perhaps also mingw binaries for the Win users, I think progress in this area will explode almost instantly.
