Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread donald . pedder
> but I haven’t really gone full into learning how to make Android bindings work    Oh and you should also check out some version of MVVMcross (there's at least two I've heard of so far) while you're checking out Xamarin. You put all your business-logic into that layer, and anything

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread donald . pedder
> I looked at a Xamarin tutorial and it looks pretty interesting if you’re willing to move to C# (not so bad for Pascal guys perhaps?).    Yep, I think so. For Phonegap I would need to learn CSS and PHP (plus get up to speed on the latest HTML), whereas learning C#, since I already know

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
2016-09-07 18:41 GMT+02:00 Ryan Joseph : > > I did enough research in Android for FPC to know I could do a simple OpenGL > game using the JNI but it didn’t look very complete and I never could get the > compiler built on my Mac. Is there enough of the Android NDK (I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread Ryan Joseph
> On Sep 7, 2016, at 4:00 AM, fpc-pascal-requ...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: > > If you only target Android, though, for now LazAndroidModuleWizard still > provides the best experience. It's still our lovely Pascal with its turbo > compilation speed, light final APK size (not lighter from

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread Ryan Joseph
> On Sep 7, 2016, at 4:00 AM, fpc-pascal-requ...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: > > ? ?Finally got a working Hello World on Phonegap, when I found out > about Xamarin, and this is where I'm heading at the moment. It is > based on C#, so gives a more-native experience for the user than > hybrid

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread leledumbo
> Out of curiosity, is this ARM-specific or does it also work with e.g. Intel-based tablets or desktop implementations of Android? I haven't tried myself (I have x86 based Android tablet, though), but the option is there: lamw-setup-dialog.png

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 07/09/16 10:00, leledumbo wrote: If you only target Android, though, for now LazAndroidModuleWizard stillprovides the best experience. It's still our lovely Pascal with its turbocompilation speed, light final APK size (not lighter from handcoded Java forsure, but still light) and fast RAD

Re: [fpc-pascal] Cross platform mobile development

2016-09-07 Thread leledumbo
> Coming from the background of a Pascal programmer (on Mac specifically) does anyone have any ideas as to what the best cross platform development environment/language is right now for mobile apps? I’d like to do some learning and maybe start some projects but I’m not sure if there are any that

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to sent totally custom parameters to the linker ?

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 06/09/16 19:00, fredvs wrote: I've had no problem with e.g. export OPT='-k-t -k--reduce-memory-overheads -k--no-keep-memory' Ha, I will try this one too. For completeness, I've re-read your OP several times and there could be a problem inserting options in a /specific/ /place/ in the ld