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digitalmars.D - Mobile app support?

reply Ashish yadav <ashking0198 gmail.com> writes:
What's the state of D support for Android , iOS and Windows RT? 
Wouldn't it be awesome if we were able to write mobile 
applications cross-platform in a single language?
Jul 08 2020
next sibling parent Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:
On Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 06:42:48 UTC, Ashish yadav wrote:

 What's the state of D support for Android , iOS and Windows RT? 
 Wouldn't it be awesome if we were able to write mobile 
 applications cross-platform in a single language?


Related to your question please see this project suggestion 
https://github.com/dlang/projects/issues/67

Kind regards
Andre
Jul 09 2020
prev sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 06:42:48 UTC, Ashish yadav wrote:

 What's the state of D support for Android , iOS and Windows RT? 
 Wouldn't it be awesome if we were able to write mobile 
 applications cross-platform in a single language?


iOS support should be working. The druntime and Phobos unit tests 
are passing, it hasn't really been battle tested yet. LDC ships 
with pre-compiled libraries for iOS 12.0 on ARM 64bit, since two 
versions ago. It's bundled in the macOS package. See the release 
notes [1].

[1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.21.0

--
/Jacob Carlborg
Jul 09 2020
parent reply aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 11:16:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 06:42:48 UTC, Ashish yadav wrote:

 What's the state of D support for Android , iOS and Windows 
 RT? Wouldn't it be awesome if we were able to write mobile 
 applications cross-platform in a single language?


 iOS support should be working. The druntime and Phobos unit 
 tests are passing, it hasn't really been battle tested yet. LDC 
 ships with pre-compiled libraries for iOS 12.0 on ARM 64bit, 
 since two versions ago. It's bundled in the macOS package. See 
 the release notes [1].

 [1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.21.0

 --
 /Jacob Carlborg


I figured its usually more about how to do it now and the 
compiler and runtime works.

I guess there's not yet a binding to say do iOS GUI or probably 
open a window or something.


On Android I believe Adam was talking about calling Java APIs 
from D on his blog. Not sure the current status though.
Jul 09 2020
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 19:31:24 UTC, aberba wrote:


 I figured its usually more about how to do it now and the 
 compiler and runtime works.


Yeah, I really need to write some form of tutorial. The problem 
is that the user experience will be quite poor, since the 
Objective-C support in LDC is very limited. I need to finish the 
support for protocols in DMD then start working on improving the 
support for Objective-C in LDC.


 I guess there's not yet a binding to say do iOS GUI or probably 
 open a window or something.


Not that I know of.

--
/Jacob Carlborg
Jul 10 2020
parent zoujiaqing <zoujiaqing gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 10 July 2020 at 09:35:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 19:31:24 UTC, aberba wrote:


 I figured its usually more about how to do it now and the 
 compiler and runtime works.


 Yeah, I really need to write some form of tutorial. The problem 
 is that the user experience will be quite poor, since the 
 Objective-C support in LDC is very limited. I need to finish 
 the support for protocols in DMD then start working on 
 improving the support for Objective-C in LDC.


 I guess there's not yet a binding to say do iOS GUI or 
 probably open a window or something.


 Not that I know of.

 --
 /Jacob Carlborg


Thanks Jacob! Your work is so important!

If I have time later, I hope to be able to study the GUI project.
Jul 12 2020