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programming tablets

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duilio foschi

nowadays tablets come cheap and with a lot of beautiful interactive objects/features:

touchscreen
bluetooth
memory card
gps
wifi
gsm
usb
etc

These objects and features make a tablet the dream of a programmer.

One can think of 1000 possible applications that will control step motors, open hotel doors, etc

How hard it is to program a tablet ?

Are there tablet as easy to program using pascal as a controller board ?

Thank you
Duilio

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Michael Van Canneyt
to duilio foschi
duilio foschi wrote 20 lines
nowadays tablets come cheap and with a lot of beautiful interactive objects/features: touchscreen bluetooth memory card gps wifi gsm usb etc These objects and features make a tablet the dream of a programmer. One can think of 1000 possible applications that will control step motors, open hotel doors, etc How hard it is to program a tablet ? Are there tablet as easy to program using pascal as a controller board ?

You can easily program tablets with pascal, there are several ways to go about it. The main problem is that you need to start over again for each tablet, as there is no unified API for them.

Michael.

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Lukasz Sokol
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Michael Van Canneyt wrote 30 lines
On Fri, 22 May 2015, duilio foschi wrote: > nowadays tablets come cheap and with a lot of beautiful interactive > objects/features: > > touchscreen > bluetooth > memory card > gps > wifi > gsm > usb > etc > > These objects and features make a tablet the dream of a programmer. > > One can think of 1000 possible applications that will control step > motors, open hotel doors, etc > > How hard it is to program a tablet ? > > Are there tablet as easy to program using pascal as a controller board ? You can easily program tablets with pascal, there are several ways to go about it. The main problem is that you need to start over again for each tablet, as there is no unified API for them. Michael.

I would point to
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Android_Programming

not tried, and probably not trivial to get e.g. Bluetooth going, but, I so hate Android Studio, with passion ;) I'm about to get over my 'use Stable luke' deep fear ;)

el es

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Michael Schnell
to Lukasz Sokol
Lukasz Sokol wrote
I would point to http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Android_Programming not tried,

There are also Apple and Windows Tablets.

As the goal of fpc and Lazarus is "write once compile everywhere", and (other than Delhi) as well fpc and the LCL does a great job on that behalf, unifying CPU architectures and OS / GUI APIs for the user, enhancing the LCL by objects that in a unified way take care of the said features would make a lot of sense.

-Michael

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Paul Breneman
to duilio foschi: nowadays tablets come cheap and with a lot of beautiful interactive objects/features:…
duilio foschi wrote 23 lines
nowadays tablets come cheap and with a lot of beautiful interactive objects/features: touchscreen bluetooth memory card gps wifi gsm usb etc These objects and features make a tablet the dream of a programmer. One can think of 1000 possible applications that will control step motors, open hotel doors, etc How hard it is to program a tablet ? Are there tablet as easy to program using pascal as a controller board ? Thank you Duilio

There are *very* easy ways depending on what you want to do, especially if you don't need a GUI program. See these links:

http://turbocontrol.com/gnuroot.htm

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,23927.0.html

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Paul Breneman
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Paul Breneman wrote 31 lines
On 05/22/2015 02:52 AM, duilio foschi wrote: > nowadays tablets come cheap and with a lot of beautiful interactive > objects/features: > > touchscreen > bluetooth > memory card > gps > wifi > gsm > usb > etc > > These objects and features make a tablet the dream of a programmer. > > One can think of 1000 possible applications that will control step > motors, open hotel doors, etc > > How hard it is to program a tablet ? > > Are there tablet as easy to program using pascal as a controller board ? > > Thank you > Duilio There are *very* easy ways depending on what you want to do, especially if you don't need a GUI program. See these links: http://turbocontrol.com/gnuroot.htm http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,23927.0.html

My goal in the next month is to port www.ctrlterm.com to both console and FreeVision (for gnuroot). Then communication testing should be easy and fun!

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