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2613 :: nim4Android

• jlp765 (orginal) [2016-11-09T23:24:03+01:00] view original

  (thinking out loud)

  If nim was to be used for android development (calling the Android JDK)

  • jnim library so that a nim android executable could call run java classes,
  • require a nim Android JDK library that extends jnim (has all the calls to the Android JDK, and triggers running the JDK java code),

  Then your nim program calls the nimAndroidJDK to handle user input/display, and does any calculations etc in nim code.

  Is there more to this than my musings?

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• flyx (orginal) [2016-11-10T09:42:05+01:00] view original

  Wouldn't it make more sense to bind Nim to Android NDK? I think you would have a hard time to call Android UI libs through jnim, unless you provide a thick layer. There is also NativeActivity which enables you to write purely native apps.

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• yglukhov (orginal) [2016-11-10T09:59:05+01:00] view original

  It is possible to extend jnim in such a way that no bindings should be defined by hand. When importing a java class, jnim could read class info in compile time and generate all the needed bindings. In other words its possible to make nim "automagically" compatible with Java with no hand-written bindings. As a side note nimx uses jnim on Android to get pixel density.

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