D for Android beta

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, June 01, 2017 19:31:28 Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> The beta release of ldc 1.3, the llvm-based D compiler, is now
> out:
>
> https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases
>
> It is accompanied by a non-trivial sample app from the Android
> NDK, ported from C++ to about 1.2 klocs of D: the classic Utah
> Teapot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot), updated with
> mobile touch controls.  This app also demonstrates calling Java
> functions from your D code through JNI, though most of it is
> written in D.
>
> There are two builds of ldc, a cross-compiler that you can use
> from a linux/x64 shell to compile to Android/ARM, and a native
> compiler that you can run on your Android device itself.  As I
> pointed out last year, not only is ldc a large mixed D/C++
> codebase that just worked on ARM, but it is possible to build
> arbitrarily large Android apps on your Android device itself, a
> first for any mobile platform:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ovkhtsdzlfzqrqneolyv@forum.dlang.org
>
> This is the way the next generation of coders will get into
> coding, by tinkering with their Android devices like we did with
> Macs and PCs decades ago, and D is one the few languages that is
> already there.
>
> I will write up instructions on how to write an Android app in D
> _on_ your Android device by using ldc and the Termux app, and get
> ldc into the Termux packages, a package repository for Android:
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=en

Yay! I keep meaning to check out programming for Android, but as with far
too many things, I never get around to it. But if I program for something
like Android, I'd definitely prefer to be doing it in D. A huge thanks to
you and everyone else who's worked on this!

- Jonathan M Davis