[Gambas-user] Gambas for Android

[John Spikowski]

On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 23:16 -0700, John Spikowski wrote:
> 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.

For those with dual core mobile devices, Gambas on Android has a good
chance of running.

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android