Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2013-02-21 Thread BJG145
/detail?id=1118 http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/wiki/MavenProjectSetup ...but I can't make much of it. I'd be glad of any hints in the right direction. On Monday, November 26, 2012 9:28:13 PM UTC, John Gabriele wrote: Hi, What is the current status of Clojure on Android

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2013-02-21 Thread BJG145
Also: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/clojure-android (Ah, only just noticed thatI'll start there...) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2013-01-22 Thread MC Andre
I wrote a wrapper for the Apache Cordova (Phonegap) API recently, so that it could be used with ClojureScript. I got Hello World, etc up and running without much fuss. There are however two issues: 1. Also a slow start-up time, since Phonegap already has resources to load, and then a

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2013-01-22 Thread Timothy Baldridge
Since Clojure runs on the JVM, why do we need ClojureScript and PhoneGap at all? Mostly because Android doesn't run a true JVM. Dalvik is different enough from a true JVM that Oracle tried to sue Google over it. Ugly details are here:

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-28 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
2012/11/27 John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com Hm. I need to read up on what the dex is, and why one would want to dex it. :) Dex is the utility transforming java byte code to dalvik executable bytecode, that can run on android. It's written in java so can be applied to itself. I remember a blog

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-28 Thread Murphy McMahon
I wrote a wrapper for the Apache Cordova (Phonegap) API recently, so that it could be used with ClojureScript. I got Hello World, etc up and running without much fuss. There are however two issues: 1. Also a slow start-up time, since Phonegap already has resources to load, and then a large

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-27 Thread Cesar Pinera
with Dalvik, such as concurrency. Still, it works. I would definitely not consider it for a real world product, though. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:28 PM, John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the current status of Clojure on Android? That is, for creating Android apps in Clojure

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-27 Thread John Gabriele
On Monday, November 26, 2012 9:14:07 PM UTC-5, Herwig Hochleitner wrote: 2012/11/26 John Gabriele jmg...@gmail.com javascript: What are currently the main limitations in creating and running Clojure programs on Android? (Does some limited subset of Clojure work? Does the bytecode that

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-27 Thread John Gabriele
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:46:44 PM UTC-5, César Piñera wrote: I put together some notes and hints on how to share Clojure functions with an Android app in Java for the Portland Clojure meetup. https://github.com/cesarpinera/TargetAndroid This looks great. Thanks, César. Clojure

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-27 Thread Curtis Gagliardi
How do you use clojurescript on android? SL4A? How does it compare to a native app? I'm looking to try to write an android app but want to avoid java, but it sounds like clojure isn't really ready for production on android. On Monday, November 26, 2012 8:14:07 PM UTC-6, Herwig Hochleitner

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-27 Thread Paul deGrandis
Curtis, I have successful built a ClojureScript app that uses SL4A (Rhino). The startup time is an issue, the performance isn't great but is acceptable. If you're just prototyping something or need a tool for in-house use - this is one alternative. Given the work and efforts that Cesar

Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-26 Thread John Gabriele
Hi, What is the current status of Clojure on Android? That is, for creating Android apps in Clojure. I found this http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Android+Support , but it appears to have been last-updated Feb 2011. What are currently the main limitations in creating and running Clojure

Re: Current status of Clojure on Android?

2012-11-26 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
2012/11/26 John Gabriele jmg3...@gmail.com What are currently the main limitations in creating and running Clojure programs on Android? (Does some limited subset of Clojure work? Does the bytecode that Clojure produces run on Dalvik?) Clojure on Android is alive and well as far as I'm aware.