[DUG] DelphiDroid

[David Brennan]

I think Jolyon is right.

 

The difference between a proof of concept (which is basically what the guy
has now) and a robust tool which handles the majority of Delphi features and
libraries is enormous. Several orders of magnitude sounds about right to me
(meaning 100-1000 times more difficult, or even more).

 

I agree with the general principle though that being able to build for
Android (and/or iPhone and others) would be great. However I think the only
way it could really be done in a decent way is by Embarcadero continuing to
extend the back end compiler to support more and more target platforms. They
have made a few references in recent times which suggest they hope to do
this but only time will tell.

 

Cheers,

David.

 

 

 

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
Sent: Monday, 29 November 2010 1:23 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Company closing

 

you should download it and make it do more then :-)

jeremy

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jolyon Smith <jsmith at deltics.co.nz> wrote:

Is it a compiler?  Technically I mean - I'd call it a translator.  :)

I wonder how far it can go though, beyond the simple examples I mean.

Translating a push button and a call to ShowMessage() is one thing.  Being
able to translate a complex application with all the libraries that Android
must support strikes me as a number of orders of magnitude more complex.




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From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On

Behalf Of Alister Christie
Sent: Monday, 29 November 2010 12:39
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Subject: Re: [DUG] Company closing

Interestingly the compiler is written in C#

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington


On 29/11/2010 12:08 p.m., John Bird wrote:
>
?http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ
<http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ
%0Aew.html> 
ew.html
>
> Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple
> examples are at least working - see a sneak peek video at the above
address.
> Says been tested with "Delphi 6.0, 7.0, 2005, 2006 and 2010."
>
> This is exactly the sort of tools we need - why does Embarcadero not jump
> onto this asap???
>
>
> John
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