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simonsayz

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Android Controls for Lazarus
« on: September 18, 2013, 08:30:10 pm »
Android control lib for lazarus.

Some basic implementation.
 - Form, Label, Edit,
 - OpenGL ES v1,v2
 - Camera ...

ref. http://blog.naver.com/simonsayz/120198362100
 



Mike.Cornflake

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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2013, 12:59:52 am »
Android native control library.

Very nice, I was looking through your YouTube samples the other day, good results.

Many thanks for sharing your work :-)
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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2013, 12:42:07 pm »
Great work!

Thank you!
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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2013, 02:31:26 pm »
 :) Thank you!
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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2013, 06:18:14 pm »
wow! No, WOOOOOOOOOW!!! :o

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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2013, 03:38:19 pm »
Well,
        I mostly gave up on Lazarus for tablet apps. Great violence is done to the Delphi concept of ease of use when it takes a week in a room to get a Lazarus app running on Android. Sure there will always be good reasons for a bad result.
Now this thread actually got an Android app to work one time within in an hour most of which was just download time. Optimistically I thought it might actually work a second time. It seems it is very dependent on the Lazarus IDE status.
After it worked the first time I added a component to the Lazarus palette basically a component of mine that blinks a simulated led. After the Lazarus IDE recompiled I was hoping the included example app might still compile after a component installation using Win7_64 Lazarus v1.0.12
Wrong
The error message is below.

PPU Loading C:\lazarus\fpc\2.7.1\units\arm-android\rtl\system.ppu
PPU Loading C:\lazarus\fpc\2.6.2\units\arm-android\rtl\system.ppu
fcllaz.pas(0,0) Fatal: Can not find system used by fcllaz, ppu=..\..\fpc\2.6.2\units\arm-android\rtl\system.ppu





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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2013, 04:55:08 pm »
Got a drawing and layouting issue. On my emulator, which is set to quite a small size screen (and resolution), only parts of the whole app can be seen. On my device (Xiaomi MI-2S), I can see there are a lot of buttons on the main screen. But the captions (including text edit) are drawn in lower half. I'll post some screenshots later.

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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2013, 04:56:03 pm »
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PPU Loading C:\lazarus\fpc\2.7.1\units\arm-android\rtl\system.ppu
PPU Loading C:\lazarus\fpc\2.6.2\units\arm-android\rtl\system.ppu
fcllaz.pas(0,0) Fatal: Can not find system used by fcllaz, ppu=..\..\fpc\2.6.2\units\arm-android\rtl\system.ppu
Your fpc.cfg must be wrong, as you let the compiler found units compiled both both 2.6.2 and 2.7.1.

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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2013, 06:25:22 pm »
Hi Picstart,

Hint: only install new component when a windows project is open... (close the cross-android project!)

Greetings!
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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2013, 11:30:30 pm »
Thanks jmpressoa. At least I have some information about the issue. I feel Lazarus is becoming unpleasant to use. I hate Lazarus oozing out of a contained file folder Lazarus into users application who knows where else it oozes out to. Anyway it looks like the failure to do what you suggest has the consequence of rendering an hour's work useless. If Lazarus would stay contained within a folder a second copy could be used for Android exclusively. I know there will be a good explanation of why the unpleasant feature of oozing out of the Lazarus file folder is valuable. Like saving megabytes on a 3 gigabyte disk. Ease of use ( the best reason Delphi was successful ) seems to be getting forgotten as more and more obtuse steps have to be learned to get Lazarus just to compile. FPC 2.7.1 is needed for android but it's not the fpc most use ...the inter dependencies and the single point of failure consequences are alarming.   It is just getting frustrating.

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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2013, 12:01:46 am »
I think your frustrations are partly due to not completely understanding the Lazarus architecture. I haven't worked with Android, so no opinion about that part.

Delphi "oozes" into the registry to store its settings.
Lazarus, being cross platform, does not use the registry and uses a directory (the "primary config path"/directory). It correctly uses the OS specified directory for this (e.g. somewhere under c:\users\... for Windows Vista+).

This arrangement allows seamless side by side installation of multiple Lazarus instances that don't interfere with each other at all - as long as you use separated config dirs and start Laz with the right --primary-config-path parameter to point to this dir.

E.g. fpcup uses this to create entirely self-contained FPC+Laz instances - no need to even mess with the PATH.

Good luck - reading about Android development on the forum and wiki, it seems the amount and variability of the components does lead to a lot of complexity..
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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2013, 07:51:00 am »
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I think your frustrations are partly due to not completely understanding the Lazarus architecture
and the release engineering ;) (continued below)
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FPC 2.7.1 is needed for android but it's not the fpc most use
understanding what development/snapshot version means would stop you from frustrating. 2.<an odd number>.<whatever> is a development version, that means everything there is not stable, including Android support. It's available for those who would like to help development by testing and reporting bugs, not for production use, despite it might be possible for most small projects. Wait for final release if you don't want to be part of those testers.

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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2013, 09:45:00 pm »
Has somebody built the compiler using the instructions on Simon's blog? I keep getting error
 
make: *** no rule rule to make target 'clean'. stop.

thanks.

simonsayz

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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2013, 11:40:04 pm »

When getting Error :  r25567 ~

Temp. Solution
ref. http://blog.naver.com/simonsayz/120198362100



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Re: Android Controls for Lazarus
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2013, 05:20:38 pm »
Android control lib for lazarus.

Some basic implementation.
 - Form, Label, Edit,
 - OpenGL ES v1,v2
 - Camera ...

ref. http://blog.naver.com/simonsayz/120198362100

does it no 32bit version?

 

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