On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, donald.ped...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
Hi all, I was on this list years ago, and then fell off at some point for some reason, but back again now. :-) Having written for DOS all those years ago, I am now just getting into making smartphone apps, and it would be good to be able to use my old friend FPC for it. :-) I have some familiarity with Java, so learning Android not too difficult (just gotta get around the smartphone-specific knowledge), but I don't know Apple's language at all, and I do want to make my apps available in both Google and Apple stores. I understand Apple have relaxed their attitude towards third-party developer tools in recent years, though I have also heard they frown on some (plus doing it with FPC may be taking me into an area where not so much tutorials available as there are for Java/Swift). Want to be sure my apps don't get rejected from Apple store for such a reason. So, just looking for some feedback from anyone on this list who may have used FPC for Android/Apple apps. i.e. have you written in FPC and succeeded in getting into Apple store, etc.? I'm looking to make my decision soon as to which language to use soon, and if FPC is suitable then that saves me having to learn a new language for the project. :-)
There are 2 possible approaches: - Use the NDK, and then basically you're writing a native Linux application. You can try to use the Android SDK through some JNI tricks; but I am unsure how well this works. - Use the Android SDK, using the JVM compiler.I have written several articles on how to use the latter approach; I wrote a real-world app with it. I can send a URL for the articles if you want.
Michael.
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