Freepascal app on Android market!!

[chronozphere]

Good to see that this is possible.

I do think that we need Cooper to unlock the full power of android to pascal developers. Messing with JNI to make Pascal binaries interface with the Java core may work, but it's a tad too messy in my opinion. Unless you have a small amount of classes to interface to, it seems like a no-go.

I'm thinking about doing Android development, after I buy myself a testing device. I'll probably use Java though, unless I find some convincing reasons to use Pascal instead.

[dazappa]

I thought somebody else here had already written some time of media player app in FPC released on the market.

[paul_nicholls]

I thought somebody else here had already written some time of media player app in FPC released on the market.

Sorry dazappa, I wasn't clear with my thread title - meant to put in 'compiler' instead of 'app'...

It appears to be a freepascal compiler that works under Android, not an Android app written with freepascal!

cheers,
Paul

[Stoney]

Very nice.
I've dabbling with Android development myself. The best way to code Pascal apps for Android I found so far is: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/A...ve_Android_GUI
Also with Android 2.3 it is possible to develop native Pascal apps without any direct use of Java.

@dazappa: You're right. BeRo made some Android apps with Pascal. But this app is special because it compiles Pascal code on Android devices.

[Ingemar]

Also with Android 2.3 it is possible to develop native Pascal apps without any direct use of Java.

Then 2.3 it is! I hope you are right, because... well, to comment on your own signature:

Programmer: A device for converting coffein into software.
Java: A device for converting software into coffee grounds.

[paul_nicholls]

Very nice.
I've dabbling with Android development myself. The best way to code Pascal apps for Android I found so far is: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/A...ve_Android_GUI
Also with Android 2.3 it is possible to develop native Pascal apps without any direct use of Java.

Nice! So how does one make Android 2.3 programs using Native Pascal without Java?

cheers,
Paul

[code_glitch]

Now this is what I call salvation: I was looking into one of those android tabs (read your thread paul, very nice finds) and was very worried I'd end up on the experimental side of compilers or have to revert to C/C++ which isn't my first choice. For me, Java is just NO. plain and simple - no java ever. The only iteration of Java I find 'acceptable' is javascript but propper java on a device: sorry - no...

[paul_nicholls]

Now this is what I call salvation: I was looking into one of those android tabs (read your thread paul, very nice finds) and was very worried I'd end up on the experimental side of compilers or have to revert to C/C++ which isn't my first choice. For me, Java is just NO. plain and simple - no java ever. The only iteration of Java I find 'acceptable' is javascript but propper java on a device: sorry - no...

I know what you mean, but I have bit the bullet, and am now also learning Java + Eclipse IDE to make some programs for my tablet. This is until I can find something suitable with Pascal and Android...

I have been spoiled with Pascal, Java doesn't even have unsigned types like Byte (unsigned), Word, LongWord, only signed integers! This is causing some pain when trying to convert some Pascal code to Java

I am also trying Project Cooper beta, but I am having trouble getting my head around the Delphi Prism syntax Also, quite frankly, doing something with Java + Eclipse is rather nice (ignoring the language issues)...Eclipse is very user friendly once you get used to it, mainly hints with errors It gives you one or more fixes for errors that you can just click on and implement!!

cheers,
Paul

[LeteRefszed]

So I had to reset my android device, and when I went to reinstall all my purchase apps, one of them was the OrbLive... It shows up, but wont let me install, and when I did a search for the OrbLive, its not in the market anymore. What to do?

[WILL]

bump!

Sorry for the long wait to get approved...