OT: It's Android Jim, but not as we know it (what CPUs does Livecode compile to?)

[François Chaplais]

Le 21 juil. 2011 à 23:52, Andre Garzia a écrit :

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:36 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 7/21/11 4:13 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> 
>>> This is a question for those of you who have sallied forth into the
>>> world of Android development (or, who have at least considered it).
>>> 
>>> When Livecode creates an app for Android deployment, what CPU
>>> architecture does Livecode compile for?
>>> 
>>> My reason for asking is that I like the look of the Asus Transformer.
>>> It is an Android tablet that docks into a keyboard.  But the processor
>>> is the Tegra.  I'm guessing that Livecode will not be compiling apps
>>> for such an unusual processor.
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't know. But if the device can download and run apps from the Android
>> market then it should be able to run anything LiveCode compiles. As I
>> understand it, the processor is immaterial, it's the OS that counts. If the
>> processor runs a standard Android distribution then it should run
>> LiveCode-compiled Android apps.
>> 
>> 
> Not Really Jacque,
> 
> Applications that target the dalvik virtual machine will run accross
> different CPUs but as I understand Android has some NDK thing like a Native
> CPU Specific Development Kit where you can compile C/C++ code such as the
> LiveCode engine and call it from a dalvik based application. As I
> understand, LiveCode is probably being built natively for the ARM CPU on
> Android and maybe x86 to run on the Android Emulator (or the Android
> Emulator is emulating ARM).
> 
> This is my guess, I may be wrong though....
> 
Isn'it some kind of Java? The kind of Java Larry Ellison is suing Google about?