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From: Anatoly Chernyshev <achernyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!
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Well, I have HTC too, and might be willing to do some programming on
it (to have some use of GPS data for instance). But your example above
just scares me away.
And I'm happy to have no employer to force me digging into this. I
will not approach any Android programming in Ada until it gets back to
the simplicity of e.g.

with Android.total.coverage, text_io;
use Android.total.coverage, text_io;
procedure Hello is
begin
  Put_Line("Hello, world!");
end Hello;

At the moment, I would opt for Python. Here is its version of "Hello,
world":

import android
droid = android.Android()
droid.makeToast('Hello, World!')

> Anatoly Chernyshev <achernys...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Looks like a Pyrrhic victory to me. All elegance of Ada is suddenly
> > dissipated.
>
> I gather you feel that Android is inelegant in some way; can you be more
> specific?
>
> I find my Android PDA to be much more useful than my previous Palm PDA.
> And certainly easier to program at this level; there were no open source
> tools for the Palm.
>
> What would be a better platform for PDA applications?
>
> --
> -- Stephe