Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!

[Anatoly Chernyshev <achernyshev@gmail.com>]

I see. So, it's all about making a nice GUI for "Hello world"? Then
I'm relieved, as I commonly don't do the interface.
For that simple example below, should I just compile it for jvm, and
then it can be run on Android?

On Oct 30, 12:47 am, Brad Moore <brad.mo...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> On 29/10/2011 8:46 AM, Anatoly Chernyshev wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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!')
>
> Note if you just interested in writing "Hello World" to a console for
> Android, you can still use the traditional Hello world program for Ada.
>
> namely;
>
> with Text_IO; use Text_IO;
> procedure Hello is
> begin
>      Put_Line("Hello, world!");
> end Hello;
>
> You may have to root your phone to get this to execute, but it will run
> and produce the desired output in a terminal console. It wont show up
> as an app however.
>
> Brad Moore