Am Montag, 3. August 2020, 01:34:32 CEST schrieb J. R. Haigh: > Hi GForth team, > I didn't know that GForth runs on Android until just this evening, when I > checked https://GForth.org for another reason. I'd be very keen to > programme Android using GForth if I was able to install it and had > documentation for how to develop applications with it. However, it seems > that it's only available on Google Play, which I nolonger use, and is not > available in the F-Droid repository. Furthermore, the manual contents > listing does not even mention Android. Please could you consider targetting > F-Droid?
The problem is that F-Droid wants to build the app from source, and, as far as I can see, F-Droid assumes that your app is a normal Java Android app, with a ant or gradle build. We don't do that. Gforth on Android is a (pretty contrived) make build, because what we build is a native C library, and Forth images, and have lots of interdependencies, need a running Gforth on the host, a modified version of swig for generating the C bindings from Forth, and whatnot. Finally, we package that, including the dependency libraries, which are also build the make build system, and then, we run gradle on a small Java wrapper, which just is a replacement for the NativeActivity, which is too buggy. I have no idea how to get that build process into F-Droid. > https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_App_Developers/#how-do-i-get-my-app-inclu > ded Please could you provide a demonstration application that I can use as a > starting point to develop Android applications written in GForth? net2o is such an example. The important part is AndroidManifest/apps, here, you can declare which Forth source you can provide as starting point. You need a makefile with extra-install: as additional target (that installs the stuff you need on Android). The makefile can build additional libraries and whatever other thing you need, just like Gforth's makefile. I should add instructions how to build, but essentially, it is running BUILD- FROM-SCRATCH in gforth/arch/arm/android. This assumes you have a working Android SDK build environment with gradle, including signing key. The BUILD- FROM-SCRATCH also shows how you integrate your own app similar to net2o. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" net2o id: kQusJzA;7*?t=uy@X}1GWr!+0qqp_Cn176t4(dQ* https://net2o.de/
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