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Re: Gforth on Android

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Steve Graham wrote:
> Can Gforth on the Android be used to make turnkey apps?

Yes, sort-of.  At the moment, we can't compile C bindings into an image, so 
you have to load the Android-specific stuff from source (this is on my to-do 
list).  And the cross compilation build procedure which produces the apk 
still contains too much magic for the average developer ;-).

> Can it interface with the Android GUI?

I have a JNI interface, but using that to interface the Android GUI wouldn't 
be a very pleasent job.  The Android GUI is tossing Java stuff all over the 
place, and you really don't want to program this in another language.  It's 
not designed for language neutral bindings, not even for JNI interfacing, as 
you need to subclass Java classes to get what you want.  Maybe some easy 
things work well from Forth via JNI (plus XML for the GUI description), but 
in general, this is all too much in Java land.

I'm working on MINOS2, which will be a Forth GUI library similar to MINOS, 
but with modern look and feel (animation, shaded stuff and such).

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Gforth on Android Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 12:52 -0700
  Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-05-15 01:41 +0200
    Re: Gforth on Android Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 17:12 -0700
    Re: Gforth on Android Marvin <marvin_littlewood_426716@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-12 02:08 -0700
  Re: Gforth on Android BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-06-10 21:34 -0700
    Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-06-11 16:19 +0200
      Re: Gforth on Android bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-06-13 23:19 -0700
        Re: Gforth on Android Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-06-14 14:57 +0200
          Re: Gforth on Android BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2014-06-15 17:49 -0700

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