Did anybody consider using FPC / Lazarus for the upcoming Palm Pre, which seems to use Linux on ARM but for user land applications seems to hide the Linux API behind some propriety "WebOS" Java interface (similar to Android ?)
-Michael
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Palm Pre
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Android recently provided a native API.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/1.5_r1/index.html
Although you can probably write an app that uses the Linux API, you will probably land up rewriting much of the Java interface to get the app to look like it was made for the device.
Michael Schnell wrote 10 lines
Did anybody consider using FPC / Lazarus for the upcoming Palm Pre,
which seems to use Linux on ARM but for user land applications seems to
hide the Linux API behind some propriety "WebOS" Java interface (similar
to Android ?)
-Michael
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Although you can probably write an app that uses the Linux API, you will probably land up rewriting much of the Java interface to get the app to look like it was made for the device.
Hmmm. At the first shot, the application should just work an look like any FPC/Lazarus application. There are not only pure GUI application that might be useful to run on the device but also more "embedded" stuff.
-Michael
Did anybody consider using FPC / Lazarus for the upcoming Palm Pre, which seems to use…
And while we are discussing ARM-Linux:
Did anybody consider using FPC / Lazarus a TomTom ?
-Michael