Re: Helping Euphoria ideas
- Posted by mic_ Feb 04, 2013
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said...
Getting a native Android app and package (apk) is a bit more effort, but don't be too surprised if it happens in the near future.
This could be done in a few different ways:
- The entire application is written in Euphoria (as a native activity), translated into C and built with the NDK build system. A small wrapper might be necessary around the generated C code, since the signature for an Android native activity entry point is "void android_main(struct android_app* state)". And of course neither the application nor the Eu runtime can use APIs that aren't available on Android.
- The Eu code is built into a shared object which can be used by the Java part of your app. That is, translate to C with the -so switch, and then generate some JNI glue that allows the library's code to interface with Java (preferably automatically. SWIG..?).
- A full Eu interpreter is packaged into a shared object complete with a JNI layer and allows any Android app using that library to execute (interpreted) Eu code.
