There is also Clojure on Android, which might be a promising alternative. http://clojure-android.info/
Justin On Feb 21, 2015 1:24 PM, "Darren Cruse" <darren.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I could chime in I've also been interesting in Racket for mobile apps. > Though I've just been learning Racket (and scheme) the last few months take > what I say with a grain of salt... > > Re-reading the OP's post it sounds like you've actually done Racket based > Phonegap/Cordova apps... I was going to mention Moby and/or Whalesong but > it sounds like been there/done that? > > Otherwise I too had briefly looked at Lamdbanative as mentioned above. > > That was interesting to me as a newbie to Racket and scheme both in seeing > how much of my Racket learning helped me to follow their code, as well as > how much does not. :) i.e. I'm new enough I'm not always appreciating what > in Racket is standardized and what is not... > > Glancing at this example game Lamdbanative includes: > https://github.com/part-cw/lambdanative/blob/master/apps/uSquish/main.scm > > My first reaction was "great I can read this code!" then my second > reaction was "oh yeah that's right big-bang ain't gonna be here... hmmm I > don't see require anywhere I guess modules work differently too ok..." > > Which is not to be negative it was just to recognize that gambit scheme > and lambdanative isn't racket so seemingly wouldn't be able to benefit from > a lot of Racket modules or it's community etc... > > Otherwise did you notice Lambdanative has it's own widget set built atop > OpenGL - that's how it achieved portability across iOS and Android with the > same code. But of course those widgets are a tradeoff - depending on what > you're doing (e.g. a game) they may be fine, but if you really want the > look and feel of native widgets that's not what you're getting. > > Lastly (maybe you know this) Gambit by design is a scheme to C translator > apparently that's why it was chosen for doing these mobile apps i.e. the > resulting code is comparable size wise and performance wise to something > you might have written in C, and obviously C is portable across iOS and > Android. > > I don't really know but I'm guessing porting the Racket VM to operate well > on iOS and Android is a bigger job than this (i.e. than getting Gambit's C > code to compile on IOS and Android). i.e. Maybe that's why there's not a > better Racket on iOS/Android story already. :) > > Chicken scheme uses a similar compile-to-C approach (they call it "Cheney > on the MTA" you can google it if you're interested). They seem to have a > good community too with lots of these packages (they call "eggs"). And I > know there's at least this one effort to do android native apps with > Chicken: https://github.com/chicken-mobile/android-chicken > > But in the end I didn't find any perfect answer either. > > I came away wishing that somehow Gambit/Lambdanative could be enhanced to > be Racket compatible... if only I had a magic wand. :) > > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle < > spdegabrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> FWIW this project targets both android and IOS: >> https://github.com/part-cw/lambdanative >> >> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 at 19:32, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensa...@soegaard.net> >> wrote: >> >>> 2015-02-13 23:08 GMT+01:00 Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org>: >>> > Anyone have any current/planned projects on compiling Android and iOS >>> apps >>> > from Racket? >>> >>> > So, as an alternative for smartphone/tablet apps, to keep handy as a >>> backup >>> > to HTML5, I'm interested again in the idea of compiling Racket to >>> native iOS >>> > and Android apps. Typical polished commercial-grade apps, so pedagogic >>> > graphics worlds alone usually aren't enough. >>> >>> I'd be interested in helping with iOS apps (writing bindings etc) >>> provided someone >>> solves the initial hurdle: getting Racket to cross compile to iOS and >>> get it >>> running on an emulator (and later an actual phone/tablet). >>> >>> There might be some hints (wrt compiler switches) here: >>> >>> https://github.com/feeley/gambit/blob/master/misc/build-gambit-iOS >>> >>> /Jens Axel >>> ____________________ >>> Racket Users list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >>> >> >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> >> > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >
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