What is the state of D with Android/iOS

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Feb 24 07:22:51 PST 2015


On 25/02/2015 2:44 a.m., Rishub Nagpal wrote:
> Is D currently mature enough to create binaries for android/iOS? I've
> been researching this, but most posts predate 2013, and I wanted to know
> what was the current status.
>
> D bindings for the JNI is certainly possible, so by extension it should
> be possible to call D libraries with Android's NDK, correct?
>
> Is is possible to write android apps purely in D similar to mono for
> android?
>
> http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/getting_started/hello,android/hello,android_quickstart/

On the note of D -> Java / Java -> D bindings.
I have done a bit of work on my fork of djvm 
https://github.com/rikkimax/djvm/blob/master/source/wrappers/java/lang/String.d

Fields and static fields should also work at this time.
But it is a long way off production.



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