Running D in the Java VM

[John J]

On 11/21/2013 05:02 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 21.11.2013 21:25, schrieb inout:
>> On Thursday, 21 November 2013 at 07:35:01 UTC, Volcz wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 17 November 2013 at 05:49:43 UTC, John J wrote:
>>>> On 11/15/2013 02:13 AM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>>>> If it should survive as an alternative, Jave should have some more
>>>> advantages over D, even after the D compiles to ARM.
>>>
>>> The Android NDK is only a second class citizen compared to the Java
>>> SDK. The only use case I have heard of for the NDK is when companies
>>> have a small C library with common functionality to make porting the
>>> products to other platforms easier.
>>
>> That's not true. Most games are written entirely with NDK. Many
>> applications, too (the app my team shipped recently contains a fair
>> amount of C++ code in it, and it only grows).
>
> NDK only covers game related APIs, mostly.
>
> How much JNI calls do you make in standard applications?
>

Another language, Delphi also uses the NDK for full Android applications.
It creates a .so lib file for each application along with a minimal Java 
class that loads the native code.

http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/compiling_android_apps_delphi.html