I'm just wondering if I made an application for Windows/Mac/Linux if I could get it to also work on mobile devices, or would I have to rewrite the application in another language to get it to work? If it's possible, what should I be looking at to get something like a "Hello World" example to show on my phone using D?

On 09/06/2017 11:34 AM, Timothy Foster wrote:
> I'm just wondering if I made an application for Windows/Mac/Linux if I
> could get it to also work on mobile devices, or would I have to rewrite
> the application in another language to get it to work? If it's possible,
> what should I be looking at to get something like a "Hello World"
> example to show on my phone using D?

Joakim has "D for Android beta":

  http://forum.dlang.org/thread/antajtnvmavswjvcdoyq@forum.dlang.org

The documentation:

  https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android

Ali

On Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at 18:34:28 UTC, Timothy Foster wrote:
> I'm just wondering if I made an application for Windows/Mac/Linux if I could get it to also work on mobile devices, or would I have to rewrite the application in another language to get it to work? If it's possible, what should I be looking at to get something like a "Hello World" example to show on my phone using D?

For iOS, there's this:

https://github.com/smolt/ldc-iphone-dev

I'm not sure if it's production ready though.

On Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at 18:34:28 UTC, Timothy Foster wrote:
> I'm just wondering if I made an application for Windows/Mac/Linux if I could get it to also work on mobile devices, or would I have to rewrite the application in another language to get it to work? If it's possible, what should I be looking at to get something like a "Hello World" example to show on my phone using D?

Backend code that does most of the work, ie your business logic, should work fine in D on mobile devices.  For the frontend, I don't know of a good touch-enabled GUI that you could use in D though.  If you're okay with doing your GUI in the native language, ie Java on Android, then calling D for the backend, that will work.  There has been some preliminary work on getting a D GUI library, DlangUI, working on Android, but my understanding is that it isn't touch-optimized:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/cdekkumjynhqoxvmgjze@forum.dlang.org

Ali gave you some good links to check out for simple apps on Android.  As for iOS, Dan was working on it, but he doesn't have time for it anymore, so it hasn't been kept up to date.

The upcoming ldc 1.4 official release will have easy support for Android, you can try it out with the current beta (you will need to cross-compile the stdlib for Android/ARM by using ldc-build-runtime, with a small tweak to druntime):

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ojoyytdparflttnnaill@forum.dlang.org

We're refining the build process for Android in the ldc 1.4 betas, so chip in if you'd like to see that done well.