[DUG] DelphiDroid

[Alister Christie]

My understanding is that both Android and iPhone are being actively 
experimented with as targets for the compiler.  We'll probably hear more 
once we have OS/X, Win64 and Linux support, which I suspect that it 
would be at last 2 years away

Alister Christie
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On 29/11/2010 1:40 p.m., David Brennan wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz 
> <mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz> 
> [mailto: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
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> 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
> ew.html 
> <http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ%0Aew.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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