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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Ada on Android?
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:22:51 -0400
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Date: 2011-09-05T13:22:51-04:00
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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.

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-- Stephe