Re: [Vala] Vala to Android - Cairo

[tarnyko tarnyko net]

Hi Tal, thanks for your interest, 

Tal Hadad writes: 

> Very good results.
> But why the Android device is needed to be rooted? 
Well, during my tutorial, I speed up things by directly copying the native 
binary deep in the phone's internal filesystem ; I think you are not allowed 
to do that with an unrooted phone. 

A solution -not requiring root- would be to regenerate and reinstall the 
whole APK each time you recompile stuff. But the tutorial would have been a 
hell longer (explanations on SDK, APK, a.s.o.) so I decided to concentrate 
on core Vala things.

> And is it possible to use OpenGLES in Vala there? 

Potentially, yes. By using the SDL Android port, which has support for ES 
1.1 and 2.0 (see http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291). 

Vala has already a SDL VAPI, we just need to recompile libs and write some 
glue code, like I did here for Cairo. I'm just too busy to do this right 
now. 

> Tal 
>
> > From: tarnyko tarnyko net
> > To: vala-list gnome org
> > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 06:10:40 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [Vala] Vala to Android - Cairo 
> >
> > Hi people,  
> >
> > Last message from myself on this thread, just to let you know that I made a 
> > tutorial for using Cairo on Android - from Vala :  
> >
> > http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/26  
> >
> > So we can now draw shapes, text, images... and all sort of nice things on 
> > Android's screen from Vala code.  
> >
> > More interesting stuff in this style will come later, working on this.  
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tarnyko
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