State of D on iOS/Android?

Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 08:08:17 PST 2012


On 28-01-2012 16:15, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-01-28 14:34, Manu wrote:
>> On 28 January 2012 14:58, Chad J <chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com
>> <http://spam.is.bad__gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/28/2012 05:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> What's the current state of D on iOS and Android? I know someone
>> has been
>> working on connecting D up to Objective-C somehow, and either
>> GDC or LDC has
>> at least partial support for Arm (but with some caveats, right?).
>>
>> Has anyone actually made anything in D on iOS and/or Android? It
>> is feasable
>> yet? (On just one, or on both?) If not, what's needed?
>>
>>
>>
>> The state of D on Android ...
>> http://interaxiom.blogspot.__com/2011/08/android-d-stuff.__html
>> <http://interaxiom.blogspot.com/2011/08/android-d-stuff.html>
>> ... seems to be unmaintained?
>>
>> I want this. And if there's any way D android apps could run
>> without rooting the phone, then I /really/ want this.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> The ARM support needs to be added to the runtime.
>

It's more or less done in GDC.

- Alex


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