D for Android beta

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 07:09:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 09:59:33 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Thursday, 1 June 2017 at 19:45:17 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I've finally written up full instructions on building D apps 
>> for Android by using the linux cross-compiler or native 
>> Android compiler I provide:
>>
>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android
>>
>> The upcoming ldc 1.4 beta will be the first to include Android 
>> cross-compilation support for all supported host platforms, ie 
>> Windows, Mac, and linux, as all my Android patches have now 
>> been merged.  I'll stop putting out my own cross-compiler 
>> builds, though I'll maintain the native ldc package in the 
>> Termux package repo, once that's accepted.
>>
>> If you want to build full OpenGLES GUI Android apps on your 
>> Android device, this wiki page shows you how to do that too.  
>> You too can be one of the elite few building mobile apps on 
>> your mobile device, and in D!
>
> And there is now an ldc package in the Termux Android app, 
> updated the wiki page to show how simple it is to install ldc 
> on your Android device now:
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android#Native_compilation_2
>
> Make sure to tell everyone you know how easy it is to write D 
> on your Android smartphone or tablet now, just like the Go 
> people have been enjoying:
>
> https://mobile.twitter.com/mattbostock/status/896923877711814657
>
> The Termux twitter highlights those now happy about using Node, 
> Clojure, or Scala on their Android phone, hopefully D is next:
>
> https://mobile.twitter.com/termux
>
> Next up, getting D working on 64-bit ARM devices, which I 
> recently got access to.  David has been working on it already, 
> hope we can get that done by ldc 1.5:
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2153

rdmd and dub are now bundled with the native ldc package for 
Termux, so you can easily write small scripts in D on your phone 
or build and run tools like DScanner from the D package 
repository at code.dlang.org.

For example, here's how you install ldc and run DScanner on your 
codebase to count how many lines of D code it has, all on your 
smartphone or tablet:

apt install ldc

dub fetch dscanner

dub run dscanner -- -l your-code/