State of D on iOS/Android?

[Manu]

On 28 January 2012 18:19, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

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


Libraries are the easy part. If you can make a build-script that 'just
works' for the average man, and perhaps also mingw binaries for the Win
users, I think progress in this area will explode almost instantly.
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