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From: Charles Oliver Nutter on 17 Jun 2010 13:44 So here's the skinny on Ruby on Android (which I've dubbed "Ruboto") * JRuby itself works out of the box, so you can incorporate it into any app and start running Ruby code. * There is a demo application on the marketplace called "Ruboto IRB" that includes a console, editor, and sample scripts. * The Ruboto IRB project is hosted at http://github.com/ruboto/ruboto-irb. * The Ruboto mailing list is "ruboto" on google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/ruboto * There is a Ruby Summer of Code project in progress to make Ruby on Android a clean and simple affair, including things like app generators, API wrappers, etc. * The Ruboto web page will be at http://ruboto.org, but it's in-progress at the moment. There's room for anyone to jump in and contribute, and of course the toolchain for Android apps is totally free and there's no restrictions on what languages you can use in your apps :) What a crazy concept! - Charlie On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Lakshmanan Muthukrishnan < > lakshmanan(a)vinsol.com> wrote: > >> Andrew Kaspick wrote: >> > Lakshmanan Muthukrishnan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I just like to build apps for Android apps. I am a rubyist btw, and how >> >> can I develop android apps using ruby ? >> >> >> >> Is there any cross compiler or any other tool available for this purpose >> >> ? >> > >> > JRuby? >> >> >> Is it stable enough ? Does it have any issues right now ? >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> > > I am also curious as to the state of Android dev with JRuby. And if Charles > reads this, I am willing to put in some time to help with the domain of > application (though it should be understood that I do have a paying job), I > have a friend I've been teaching Ruby, but he's been a bit aloof. He used > Python to host a server, and Java to get his phone to connect to it, I > wouldn't mind being able to help him set up a JRuby app on his phone, and > would be willing to use as much of my understanding as possible. > > If that is not going to happen for quite a while, I wouldn't mind knowing > this either, sot hat i dont accidentally promise things I can't deliver. >
From: Jose Hales-Garcia on 17 Jun 2010 14:12 On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > There's room for anyone to jump in and contribute, and of course the > toolchain for Android apps is totally free and there's no restrictions > on what languages you can use in your apps :) What a crazy concept! There's the question of preferred language. Personally, I'd prefer to code for the Iphone using Ruby and hope Apple eventually lets MacRuby into their garden. The other question is how successful of a market will Android become among non-techies given its unrestrained openness. Jose ....................................................... Jose Hales-Garcia UCLA Department of Statistics jose.halesgarcia(a)stat.ucla.edu
From: Charles Oliver Nutter on 17 Jun 2010 14:29 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jose Hales-Garcia <jose.halesgarcia(a)stat.ucla.edu> wrote: > There's the question of preferred language. Â Personally, I'd prefer to code for the Iphone using Ruby and hope Apple eventually lets MacRuby into their garden. > > The other question is how successful of a market will Android become among non-techies given its unrestrained openness. I fail to see how unrestrained openness would negatively impact the success of the Android marketplace. More bad apps will slip through, but you can rate those suckers into the ground if you choose. Given the explosion of choice in Android devices and the openness of its tooling, OS, and market, I think it's a pretty good bet to start getting into Android development now. - Charlie
From: Yacobus Reinhart on 17 Jun 2010 14:33 This link will be very useful for you: http://www.reinhartlab.com/2010/05/develop-smartphone-using-rhohub.html It is using ruby on rails and very easy :) Yacobus -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Charles Oliver Nutter on 17 Jun 2010 20:09
I don't find the Rhomobile way very appealing. I want to be able to call into all the Android APIs, write interactive 2D graphical apps, and basically have the entire world of Java libraries available to me. Rhomobile seems like a lowest-common-denominator platform, where lowest can mean some pretty primitive Blackberry devices. Ruboto is aimed at Android and Android alone, and (if I have anything to say about it) will not limit what parts of the platform you can use. FWIW, I think Rhomobile is a fine approach if you want to have a very simple web-like application that installs locally and works on several platforms. Of course, I can suggest another option for that: the web itself :) - Charlie On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Yacobus Reinhart <booking2heaven(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > This link will be very useful for you: > > http://www.reinhartlab.com/2010/05/develop-smartphone-using-rhohub.html > > It is using ruby on rails and very easy :) > > Yacobus > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > |