Has anyone knows whether we can build a console application with firemonkey framework for mobile? My goal is to be able to create a console application running on arm device. Thanks
You should be able to simulate a console by using an "Edit"(like TEdit) for input and a Memo/RichEdit(TMemo, TRichEdit) for the output, other than that, I don't think it's possible except for android maybe...
maybe you should dive into android's source and see how they glue things together, starting from scratch is going to take a long time... even more if you haven't seen how it can be done.
If you want to customize the Android GUI, you're either looking at writing a launcher and some widgets, theming (choose your theme engine!), heavily modding AOSP or another source based ROM (if you can build it for your device), or some combination of the three. FPC can only really help you with the first. You'll need a very strong understanding of AOSP and how Android works if you want to embark on the last one.
AFAIK, most everything in user space is written in Java except for device drivers, the Dalvik VM (duh), and very performance sensitive pieces. The rest of the OS services, including the UI, are all Java.
Anyone that knows is almost certainly under NDA right now -- I don't think EMBT has announced anything yet. I'd expect it to compile to Java bytecode for the Dalvik VM. If we're really lucky it might also compile NDK binaries.
You should be able to simulate a console by using an "Edit"(like TEdit) for input and a Memo/RichEdit(TMemo, TRichEdit) for the output, other than that, I don't think it's possible except for android maybe...
ReplyDeleteWell that is not what i want. It should be working on dos natively. Well in this case in arm device with android os but without the GUI.
ReplyDeleteI know that android has many "terminal" apps, and you can run apps through them, but on iOS, I don't think you have that option without a lot of fuss.
ReplyDeleteOoo i see. Well i have to wait for android release then.
ReplyDeleteActually what i want to do is that i want to create my own custom OS Gui on android OS.
maybe you should dive into android's source and see how they glue things together, starting from scratch is going to take a long time... even more if you haven't seen how it can be done.
ReplyDeleteYup, just that before i do that, i just want to know whether i can do what i'm looking for using delphi. Thanks for the advice
ReplyDeleteyou'll probably want to use FPC rather than delphi if you want to go so low, maybe C is an even better alternative...
ReplyDeleteYup, i'm thinking to look again on fpc, cause i've seen fpc can even create
ReplyDeletean os called fpos even though it's still in early alpha stage.
If you want to customize the Android GUI, you're either looking at writing a launcher and some widgets, theming (choose your theme engine!), heavily modding AOSP or another source based ROM (if you can build it for your device), or some combination of the three. FPC can only really help you with the first. You'll need a very strong understanding of AOSP and how Android works if you want to embark on the last one.
ReplyDeleteAFAIK, most everything in user space is written in Java except for device drivers, the Dalvik VM (duh), and very performance sensitive pieces. The rest of the OS services, including the UI, are all Java.
ReplyDeleteSo delphi for android will compile to java?
ReplyDeleteAnyone that knows is almost certainly under NDA right now -- I don't think EMBT has announced anything yet. I'd expect it to compile to Java bytecode for the Dalvik VM. If we're really lucky it might also compile NDK binaries.
ReplyDeleteFrom what i read so far, it should compiled to NDK binaries
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