Freepascal app on Android market!!

[Ingemar]

For me, Java is just NO. plain and simple - no java ever.

I agree with you, totally. Awful language, combining the worst parts of C with poor performance, tedious frameworks and, worst of all, a "purity" attitude that is totally unacceptable.

And I have learned Java. I have used it in education, designed labs using it, and in two commercial projects. I know it well enough to know that it is my enemy. Java, the dark side of programming!

But nothing bad that doesn't have a bright side. If I can write for Android in pure FPC code, I believe that I can outperform the Java crowd in performance (almost without even trying), and the C crowd in productivity. The only thing I fear is that it is as hard to make a working installation as it is for the iPhone. (I have a working iPhone installation, and the process to make a new one, but it was not easy to figure out.)

[JSoftware]

It's pretty easy to make Android programs using the NativeActivity trick. It requires that huge ant build system, but once set up it generally just works

I have an example here: http://j-software.dk/android.zip
Run lazbuild test.lpi in the jni dir, and then run ant debug/ant
install in the root dir

[paul_nicholls]

It's pretty easy to make Android programs using the NativeActivity trick. It requires that huge ant build system, but once set up it generally just works

I have an example here: http://j-software.dk/android.zip
Run lazbuild test.lpi in the jni dir, and then run ant debug/ant
install in the root dir

Thanks JSoftware

So it looks like I need a arm-linux cross-compiler then for this project?

cheers,
Paul

[JSoftware]

Thanks JSoftware

So it looks like I need a arm-linux cross-compiler then for this project?

cheers,
Paul

Yes precisely

Edit: You need to build a crosscompiler, and you need to get the relevant libraries from the Android SDK

[paul_nicholls]

Ok, will try and build a cross-compiler, and I already have the android SDK

cheers,
Paul

[code_glitch]

Hmm... ARM cross compiler? Doesn't FPC have about 3 of those anyway?

if this is your first steps in Linux paul, I'd highly recommend a ubuntu 10.10 install, 11.04 is *cough*acceptable but caused me 2 entire reloads grr.,.. I don't know what they did to it but yeah. Oh, and I'm on the Canonical boo! side of things, that also means I hate unity and love Gnome, KDE, XFCE and (YAY) the new Gnome 3!!!! [Although I didn't get it working to good last time X/]

[paul_nicholls]

Hmm... ARM cross compiler? Doesn't FPC have about 3 of those anyway?

if this is your first steps in Linux paul, I'd highly recommend a ubuntu 10.10 install, 11.04 is *cough*acceptable but caused me 2 entire reloads grr.,.. I don't know what they did to it but yeah. Oh, and I'm on the Canonical boo! side of things, that also means I hate unity and love Gnome, KDE, XFCE and (YAY) the new Gnome 3!!!! [Although I didn't get it working to good last time X/]

Hey code_glitch,
I have dabbled a small bit with Ubuntu (version 9.x I think) + Lazarus in a virtual machine a while back, so I will try Ubuntu again

I just wish I had a machine I could install Ubuntu on for real LOL

cheers,
Paul