State of D on iOS/Android?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:34:22PM +0200, Manu wrote:
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> 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.


T

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