D for Android

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 01:17:44 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>  I'll start cleaning up my fairly simple build process and 
> document it on the wiki, so that others can easily play with D 
> on Android/x86.
Finally cleaned up my build process a bit and wrote it up on the 
wiki:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Build_DMD_for_Android

It got a little long, as I don't have everything scripted yet, 
tried to explain all my steps, and attempted to put everything in 
one place, including listing the necessary android adb commands.  
Hopefully, some of you can help script more of it and eventually 
integrate D into the Android build scripts.  Let me know if you 
have any problems with the process.

> Looking forward to help on 3., 4., and 5. above, and to seeing 
> what others do with this new platform.

I finally built a native Android/x86 GUI app in D, translated 
from a sample C app in the Android NDK, after translating a bunch 
of android headers and putting them up on github:

https://github.com/joakim-noah/android

Thanks to Jacob Carlborg and the excellent work he's done on 
dstep, for allowing me to automate translation of most of those 
headers and save a bunch of time. :) I'll submit the repo to 
deimos or dub, whichever is the better place to put it.

I'll keep updating the wiki with more info, how to build for the 
command-line and run the druntime/phobos unit tests, along with 
directions for future work.