Re: [swift-evolution] [Pitch]Building a limited framework to develop Android Apps in Swift 3.0

2016-10-11 Thread Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution
Thank you for that clarification. I was confused about where it fitted in. I discuss it on swift-users. On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Chris Lattner wrote: > > > On Oct 11, 2016, at 2:34 PM, Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: &

Re: [swift-evolution] [Pitch]Building a limited framework to develop Android Apps in Swift 3.0

2016-10-11 Thread Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution
gt; Sure you can ask for help, but I believe other platforms like >> stackoverflow or even swift-users would be a better place for that. >> >> And I think your statement about rejection is totally wrong. The core >> team has enough work and responsibility to care about. &

Re: [swift-evolution] [Pitch]Building a limited framework to develop Android Apps in Swift 3.0

2016-10-10 Thread Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution
hink your statement about rejection is totally wrong. The core team > has enough work and responsibility to care about. > > > > -- > Adrian Zubarev > Sent with Airmail > > Am 10. Oktober 2016 um 20:06:26, Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution ( > swift-evolution@swif

Re: [swift-evolution] [Pitch]Building a limited framework to develop Android Apps in Swift 3.0

2016-10-10 Thread Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution
antinides via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > > > In Swift 3.0 you can build Android apps in Linux but only console apps > as there is no framework to build GUI apps using JNI. > > What I propose is to build an initial limited framework cod

[swift-evolution] [Pitch]Building a limited framework to develop Android Apps in Swift 3.0

2016-10-09 Thread Tony Constantinides via swift-evolution
In Swift 3.0 you can build Android apps in Linux but only console apps as there is no framework to build GUI apps using JNI. What I propose is to build an initial limited framework coded in C that calls enough of the Java Android API via JNI to bootstrap the android app and to create widgets and la