Google Android

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

2009/4/29 Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight at gmail.com>:
> Weed wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to implement support for Google Android on the D?
>
> Perhaps, but it'd be easier to implement support for D on the Google Android
> :-).
>
> LDC might be able to generate .class files, which can be run through the
> Android thingy to get them into a format gor which Google doesn't have to
> pay Sun. The trick would be integrating D and Java's GCs. You can probably
> already get a *very* simple program which doesn't use the D runtime working
> by using LDC to generate a .bc, using the LLVM JVM backend to write out a
> .class file and run it through the google thing. Not sure if anyone's tried
> it, though.
>

According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Android )
it should be possible to run native ARM code, even though it's not
officially supported by google.

It's probably possible to get a full D implementation, but someone
would just have to fix Tango on ARM ;)