Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas for Android

[John S. <su...@sc...>]

On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 06:55 +0100, John Rose wrote:
> I really like Rob Kudla's transpiler idea of being able to generate
> Dalvik bytecode from Gambas object code (.gambas?).
> 
> A digression: Bluestacks looks like a useful piece of software: this
> currently allows running an Android app under Windows and is soon to be
> extended to Mac. This sounds useful in conjunction with running
> Basic4android under Windows (i.e. as a Guest OS in Virtualbox). So if
> a .apk can be 'converted' to run under Windows...
> 
> I guess that Gambas would also need components for the typical extra
> hardware in an Android device e.g. GPS, accelerometer.  

This sounds grand but wouldn't it be prudent to get the Gambas console
mode interpreter working on Android Linux native first? I think a GUI
version of Gambas on Android is unrealistic at this time. Wait until
Ubuntu release their ARM mobile Linux.