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?

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

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

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/Jacob Carlborg

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?
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> 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
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> /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.

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.

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/Jacob Carlborg

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.
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>> I guess there's not yet a binding to say do iOS GUI or probably open a window or something.
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> Not that I know of.
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> /Jacob Carlborg

Thanks Jacob! Your work is so important!

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