On Saturday, 10 December 2022 at 22:53:14 UTC, jni wrote:
Friends, I have decided to use D lang to link with the Android
NDK. I can make an app that can use the android platform's
functions and the android site says they are available in C for
linux and windows! Making apps in android studio or 2 other
programs I have used before is easy but now I require D because
of the advantages quality innovations I have written inside a
D library, second I would use the D std library for using curl,
and it needs to be in an apk for now and maybe in the years to
come I will switch to using a binary executable. As you can
see, linking with the NDK from D is the one possible outcome.
I have succesfully linked with the NDK and learned valuable
linux programming along the way, but before I get too
over-enthusiastic and joyous and get ahead of myself to make an
error in trying to use the optional Android Studio together
with the arsd.jni, please, I wish to share with you my
questions and concerns for the best way to move forward with
this massive undertaking this thing, and how to go about
calling android platform functions using arsd.jni and other D
lang technologies from code.Dlang.org that may be useful to me.
For starters I wish to call the wifi functions for checking
internet availability. How can I achieve this most efficiently?
Then there are the maven questions because Android Studio does
many of these automatically, and from my experience does an
annoyingly gross job at it, btw unless you use all of their
official tools. How do I use the maven for using jars or an
Apache repository for server communication? I am using gradle
with all this and everything works fine. Any suggestions on how
to start this thing is welcome. I will connect through SSL with
a remote server and print a log on the server side. On the
Android side only connect and wait for further data to be
recieved and if the stream finishes then it should stop the
app. That part will mean sleeping the app until when it is
relaunched. The server is php code.
I tried to add in correct place on forums. Thank you.
Friends I am troubling you with too simple of a message. Please
allow me to not be dissapointing myself here.
Friends, mainly the focus of this very simple project is I will
try to use the Android NDK "framework" API, as it is called, once
I have linked succesfully, as I have already tested, next all
that is left is to use the Android platform's NDK API from D lang
code because I am trying my best not to use Java. I was wanting
to include the JNI for good measure but was already planning to
use the NDK API with extern(C). I thought it would be
straight-forward since I knew that the Android platform used jni
in the OS, but after doing some digging all I could find was the
API reference over on android.com. There isn't much complication
to be done only I was catching myself guessing how to go about it
most efficiently for such a simple and small project. I would try
to call the NDK API functions since it is the most low-level and
C-like functional programming. I know much less of Java and will
try to write the minimum I can.
What I need is D lang because I have a D module to include into
the app, there may be code.dlang.org packages that I may want to
use, I will be using the std lib curl functions, there is the
possibility of having to include functions from a seperate C
library in the future if all goes well, the need to use maven for
an Apache project's client and adding 2 other jars for it that
are personal libraries, the possibility of using Android Studio
if things get rocky. As you see there is no other way. I must use
D or find something else to do.
A small project as this that I would like only simplicity, any
recommendations or suggestions on how would be the best way to go
through with this?
