Thank you for making Amber known, but you forgot a link to it: I guess you talk about this: http://amber-lang.net/
Alain On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:35 PM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have tried squeak on my android devices, it basically runs on android > yes but it does not behave well with multi touch its practically unusable. > Basically it does not understand when someone lifts his finger from the > screen , so it can get clicks but its sticky clicks.So moving windows > around and clicking on things is a pain and not usable at all. I suspect > something similar applies for pharo too. > > If you want to develop for mobile devices your best bet right now is > Amber. Amber tries to be as compatible as possible to pharo and compiles to > javascript. You should be able to use pharo as a backend if you want to but > I have not tried to really confirm this, I dont see any reason why this > wont work. The advantage of amber is that any app you develop with it wont > be just a mobile app but also a web app. > > Using pharo for desktop apps is of course perfectly doable and recommended > or as a backend to web apps. But if you have a tablet and want to focus on > this I would say that Amber + Pharo should seal the deal for you and you > will give you access to loads of stuff you can do because amber will give > you immediate access to all Javascript libraries and that can only be a > good thing :) > > Also javascript is probably a very good way to develop Android apps that > also work on iOS. > >
