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9869 :: Possible way for easy android app creation without JAVA!

• curioussav (orginal) [2023-02-06T05:55:04+01:00] view original

  Hey everyone, the topic of writing android apps has come up before over the years. Goes without saying but it's a hard problem. I did just find a cool project here: https://github.com/cnlohr/rawdrawandroid and I'm wondering if this looks promising. It looks like a pretty active project so If we could build on top of it then we may have a decent solution that wont burn another brave contributor. Any thoughts?

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• curioussav (orginal) [2023-02-06T06:19:14+01:00] view original

  Oh boy, this guy has all kinds of fun stuff. VR app running on meta quest in just c https://github.com/cnlohr/tsopenxr/tree/master/meta_quest I may have to try replicating that one in just nim

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• planetis (orginal) [2023-02-06T09:54:56+01:00] view original

  I have seen this repo/video before, and the build system here does exactly that using the latest Android NDK/SDK. There is also a config.nims which is responsible for configuring the right cross-compiler and some more compiler/linker options directly in the module here I've spit everything up purposely and it works quite nicely imo. Also it avoids the gradle build system.

  Besides mine, a previous attempt was made here: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimx/blob/master/nimx/naketools.nim using nake but due to the switch to Nimv2, it's currently broken.

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• planetis (orginal) [2023-02-06T10:07:10+01:00] view original

  Also worth mentioning https://github.com/akavel/hellomello but I don't know what's the status of this, would love to know if someone tried it.

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• PMunch (orginal) [2023-02-06T10:08:50+01:00] view original

  Some other interesting Nim on Android projects include: https://github.com/GordonBGood/NimHelloJNI and https://github.com/akavel/hellomello the former looks at interfacing with the JNI and the latter looks at building apps without the Java SDK at all. The hellomello sample has some JNI code as well, and I believe it would be possible to marry the two and create a Java/Android Studio/JRE free Nim application which renders native controls.

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• grd (orginal) [2023-02-06T14:34:37+01:00] view original

  Are you also aware of the programming language Clojure?

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• curioussav (orginal) [2023-02-06T17:53:11+01:00] view original

  Cool. Yeah that nimscript file is pretty much it!

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• curioussav (orginal) [2023-02-06T17:55:13+01:00] view original

  Yeah, I'm aware of other languages that run on the JVM. But I don't really have a problem with Java the language. It's not Java the language that makes Android a pain.

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