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archnim (orginal) [2020-12-14T09:02:12+01:00] view original

Hello world. Is it planned for mobile dev to be done in Nim, soon or in a further future ?

mratsim (orginal) [2020-12-14T09:22:19+01:00] view original

If you mean compilation on mobile, you can compile Nim for iOS, Android or even the Nintendo Switch and this has been possible for years.

If you mean something else (tutorials, tooling, hot-code reloading, ...) can you explain what you want?

qqtop (orginal) [2020-12-14T09:26:13+01:00] view original

On Android:

install termux from google play pkg install nim

now you can compile your nim progs on the phone !

archnim (orginal) [2020-12-14T09:40:49+01:00] view original

I mean create an app for mobile. With a gui.

zetashift (orginal) [2020-12-14T18:14:06+01:00] view original

There is currently no mature framework for Nim yet with good learning resources. So you'd do a lot of experimenting and probably run up against a lot of stuff depending on what you want to make. The community is active tho so it's not impossible.

What is it you like to make?

mrhdias (orginal) [2020-12-14T22:52:54+01:00] view original

Check this project: https://github.com/iffy/wiish

treeform (orginal) [2020-12-14T23:32:49+01:00] view original

Also see:

my project https://github.com/treeform/glfm

manual android https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/nimc.html#crossminuscompilation-for-android

manual iOS https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/nimc.html#crossminuscompilation-for-ios

federico3 (orginal) [2020-12-20T18:18:29+01:00] view original

I'm using gtk3+libhandy: https://tuxphones.com/tutorial-developing-responsive-linux-smartphone-apps-gnome-builder-gtk-libhandy-gtk-part-1/

So far the only libhandy wrapper for Nim is https://github.com/StefanSalewski/gintro

v3ss3n (orginal) [2020-12-20T19:42:54+01:00] view original

This is very attractive. Would be cool , if nim can do like flutter. Can we somehow plugin Flutter UI and use it to build nim?

archnim (orginal) [2020-12-20T19:43:41+01:00] view original

Thank you very much for all your links. Together, we'll make Nim greater.

kragil (orginal) [2023-04-19T08:32:40+02:00] view original

Has the nim mobile dev story made any progress in the last 3 years?

Araq (orginal) [2023-04-19T09:25:47+02:00] view original

Sure, Nim did run on mobile 3 years ago and it received 3 years of development and still runs on mobile.

PMunch (orginal) [2023-04-19T11:38:49+02:00] view original

Nothing that makes it easy or a boxed setup kind of deal. But there have been some mobile gamedev done, and you have https://github.com/GordonBGood/NimHelloJNI which deals with interfacing against the JNI and https://github.com/akavel/hellomello which builds Android apps without the Android toolchain.

alexeypetrushin (orginal) [2023-04-19T13:21:57+02:00] view original

Also, naylib (Nim wrapper around raylib gamedev library) provides steb by step instructions how to build Android app.

jmgomez (orginal) [2023-04-20T00:47:43+02:00] view original

Also you can use Unreal to target mobile and as a cross platform environment really. Dont think there is a much better developer workflow for Nim outhere: fast hot reloading with access to the VM as an interpreter too (no comp times).

I want to explore the path of building an example GUI soon. After stripping a few default modules it should be small enough. My bet is somewhere between 30-50Mb not quite sure.

alexeypetrushin (orginal) [2023-04-20T20:34:19+02:00] view original

It would be really helpful to have something like TodoMVC demo app working on Android. As, while there are some solutions from above, it's unclear how feature complete they are and if it would be possible to build actual UI or there going to be surprises.

kragil (orginal) [2023-04-21T12:57:18+02:00] view original

Thanks for the answers, so it might be possible, but it seems to be far from straight forward. So not a lot of progress from where I am standing.

For example: APKs are fairly obsolete in Google land and the list goes on. I might have a look at the game engines, but dragging a big fat game engine for my tiny Nim app around is not very appealing to me.

planetis (orginal) [2023-04-21T13:31:58+02:00] view original

That's not a lot of progress? Multiple people have had their go, and their results are available for free. Man sometimes I get frustrated with open source.

I understand that shipping an Android app to the Play Store requires an App Bundle https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle/ But APKs are not obsolete, how else can you share what your creations among friends?

And besides I don't think it's much work to port any of the existing projects to App Bundles. It just needs someone with dedication.

To quote @raysan5:: In my life experience one thing I learned is that waiting for others to do things for you is usually a bad idea specially if you expect it to be done for free

cmc (orginal) [2023-04-21T17:51:49+02:00] view original

waiting for others to do things for you is usually a bad idea

But we all try at least once, now don't we? 😉

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