Mobile app support?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 11:59:38 UTC, angel wrote:
> Take into account that generating ARM binary is not all the 
> story.
> For example, Android applications run in a virtual machine 
> targetted by (a dialect of) Java. These Java applications can 
> be bound to native code via JNI interface, that also does not 
> target D, and even a plain C application would have to be 
> ported, as they use some kind of Android-specific version of C 
> standard library.
> To summarize, possibly you could port a D application to 
> Android with reasonable investment of sweat and blood, but ... 
> you know, everyone can fall out of a window, but this cannot be 
> considered the most convenient way to get to the street.
> Possibly the upcoming Ubuntu phone will be able to provide a 
> friendlier platform ...

Additionally both Google and Microsoft see the plain C and C++ 
environment as meant for games only, a way to make use of 
"legacy" code or for common code across platforms.