Hi folks, I have been looking at developing for my Android phone which is running Gingerbread (Android version 2.3). The important thing about the official development kit is this:
The new native development kit (C/C++ cross compiler for ARM) is that the you can create android applications from pure C without using the Dalvik/Java virtual machine at all. The thinking behind this was probably for game developers to be able to avoid their VM. So all that might be needed is a Haskell compiler with a C-backend that emits ARM-compatible code and an initially minimal android runtime. Implementing to the new "native_activity.h" allow for the usual application life-cycle: onStart, onPause, onResume, onStop... Some options I have not had a chance to look into: 1) GHC arm port and -via-C 2) jhc (and lhc) generated C 3) port nhc98 4) port yhc bytecode runtime Does anyone know who else is thinking along any of these lines? Are there 5th or 6th routes to take? Cheers, Chris Kuklewicz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
