State of D on iOS/Android?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-01-28 14:34, Manu wrote:
> On 28 January 2012 14:58, Chad J <chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com
> <http://spam.is.bad__gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/28/2012 05:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>         What's the current state of D on iOS and Android? I know someone
>         has been
>         working on connecting D up to Objective-C somehow, and either
>         GDC or LDC has
>         at least partial support for Arm (but with some caveats, right?).
>
>         Has anyone actually made anything in D on iOS and/or Android? It
>         is feasable
>         yet? (On just one, or on both?) If not, what's needed?
>
>
>
>     The state of D on Android ...
>     http://interaxiom.blogspot.__com/2011/08/android-d-stuff.__html
>     <http://interaxiom.blogspot.com/2011/08/android-d-stuff.html>
>     ... seems to be unmaintained?
>
>     I want this.  And if there's any way D android apps could run
>     without rooting the phone, then I /really/ want this.
>
>
> 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.

The ARM support needs to be added to the runtime.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg