Hi,

Direct to the subject:
Can I create Apps for Android and iOS using Lazarus nowadays?

I've seen frameworks like Castle-Engine that have a Tool which claims to be more easy to building and packaging Apps:
https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/wiki/Build-Tool

This framework looks like a piece of art, but I'm more interested to build business applications with Forms, Grids, Lists and so on.

I believe that Ionic framework is a good choice to build mobile apps, but if could have such apps using Free Pascal and Lazarus, would be nice.

Can I do that using Lazarus and its default widgets?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Marcos Douglas
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You can create some form of apps using the customdrawn widgetset, but I cannot honestly recommend this approach. I do not think it works on iOS (I could be mistaken) and it looks simply abysmal on android.

I have created some android apps using the FPC JVM compiler, but then you need to start all over for iOS. I believe there is still some iOS desiger package by Joost van der Sluis.

So at the moment the developer experience would not be very good, I think you're better off using a HTML5 based Ionic app.

Michael.

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus <

Ok Michael, thanks for the advice.

Marcos Douglas
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Michael Van Canneyt wrote

So at the moment the developer experience would not be very good, I think you're better off using a HTML5 based Ionic app.

This of course is bad news, but we do hope for improvement when time comes....

See -> http://www.remobjects.com/ .
They claim to allow for writing multi-target pascal applications: "NEW: Elements 9.1, Oxygene, C# & Swift, for iOS, Android, Mac, .NET & more."

(Of course not free / Open Source)
-Michael

They claim Delphi VCL compatibility and hence it should be compatible to LCL, as well.

-> http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/whatsnew.aspx

(I did not test any of their products.)

-Michael

Michael Schnell wrote

They claim Delphi VCL compatibility and hence it should be compatible to LCL, as well. -> http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/whatsnew.aspx (I did not test any of their products.)

Might also be worth bering
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-now-official/ in mind. Not Pascal, but at least was designed with Pascal in mind.

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Michael Schnell via Lazarus <

I've read something about RemObjects but I prefer stay in FPC that is Open Source.
But thanks, anyway.

Best regards,
Marcos Douglas
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On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus <

I didn't know Kotlin compiles to iOS.
They are using LLVM — but FPC has a branch for that too, right? — but "...Kotlin/Native is far from complete, so this Technology Preview has a number of limitations that will be eliminated at later stages" see https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-preview-kotlin-without-a-vm/

So, I believe Ionic and JavaScript is winning until now.

Best regards,
Marcos Douglas
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I you limit yourself to Android: with LAMW you can make perfect Android apps !

https://github.com/jmpessoa/lazandroidmodulewizard

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On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Alfred via Lazarus <

I saw this project. Looks good... but my client needs Android and iOS so... :(

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Marcos Douglas
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