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halflifezy

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when will lazarus support android and ios?
« on: March 02, 2013, 10:29:08 am »
when will lazarus support android and ios?
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2013, 10:51:38 am »
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halflifezy

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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2013, 11:17:13 am »
i have used android one with above.it is not good.
it is hard to use jni to call function and procedure.
and ios one does it support MS Windows?
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2013, 03:32:11 pm »
Quote from: halflifezy on March 02, 2013, 11:17:13 am
i have used android one with above.it is not good.
it is hard to use jni to call function and procedure.
and ios one does it support MS Windows?

No, apple forbids its tools for that. Reverse engineering those is hard and, part time as we are, would take too long.
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2013, 04:02:05 pm »
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i have used android one with above.it is not good.
it is hard to use jni to call function and procedure.
What's the JNI for? Are you trying to use Android features instead of LCL/FCL/RTL provided ones? JNI is indeed difficult to use, even from C/C++. But you must deal with it if you want to access Android specific features. For many applications, you won't need it though. SMS, Accelerometer and Vibration are even available in LazDeviceAPIs.
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2013, 06:36:54 am »
is lazarus can call android api directly?
no need jni?
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2013, 07:13:18 am »
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is lazarus can call android api directly?
no need jni?
No, JNI will be required unless the required API is already JNI-ed (such as SMS, accelerometer and SQLite). But you would not need to use JNI since most functionalities is provided by RTL/FCL/LCL.
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2013, 03:58:21 pm »
RAD STUDIO will support android in the future.maybe this year.
why will not the lazarus?
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2013, 04:01:59 pm »
Quote from: halflifezy on March 13, 2013, 03:58:21 pm
RAD STUDIO will support android in the future.maybe this year.
why will not the lazarus?
Your patches are very welcome.
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2013, 04:39:37 pm »
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RAD STUDIO will support android in the future.maybe this year.
why will not the lazarus?
I wonder whether you skipped my answer or what. Lazarus/FPC supports Android, either through custom drawn interface or pure Android libraries. Even FPC trunk (2.7.1) already considers arm-android as a real target, not hacked arm-linux anymore.
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2013, 05:42:26 am »
how long we can see it?
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2013, 04:36:53 pm »
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how long we can see it?
Now, if what you ask is creating android app with current lazarus. (Maybe) when FPC 2.8 comes out, if what you ask is native arm-android target.
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2013, 05:11:03 pm »
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2013, 05:51:31 am »
yes,i ask native arm-android target.
is it will take a long time?
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Re: when will lazarus support android and ios?
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2013, 02:40:06 pm »
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But it does not support threads there, does it?
Not sure, haven't tried thread programming on it yet.
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yes,i ask native arm-android target.
is it will take a long time?
I can't say anything for the ETA, it was always like that (welcome to pure open source project). First, remaining bugs must be fixed. Then, To do's must be done. The development team also have milestones that have to be implemented. Feel free to wait, or help finish those tasks if you can't.
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