Re: Ada on Android?

[onox <denkpadje@gmail.com>]

On Sep 5, 7:22 pm, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> I managed to modify an open source music player written in Java to do
> what I want on my new Android.
>
> Now I want to make it even better, but I'm already tired of saying "I
> wish this was in Ada!".
>
> So I install GNAT GPL 2011 for jvm target, and ran jvm2ada on
> android.jar (which generated about 2,900 files!, after some hiccups).
>
> Then I tried building the Java hello world tutorial translated to Ada.
> The compiler reported several bugs in the generated code; some obvious
> errors (duplicate identifiers) some apparently compiler bugs. After
> finding work-arounds for all of those, I finally hit a bug box that I
> don't see how to fix.
>
> I'm doing this at home, so I can't use my work AdaCore support contract
> to get help.
>
> Has anyone here done any Ada for Android?
>
> I could compromise and write the GUI and Android API-intensive stuff in
> Java and the rest in Ada, but for this program, most of it is GUI or
> Android-intensive (there are a _lot_ of very nice facilities in the
> Android API). So that would not gain much.
>
> --
> -- Stephe

You might be interested in checking the GNATDroid (Android 2.3+) cross-
compiler for FreeBSD at http://www.dragonlace.net/