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

[Bernard Devlin]

Since the Tegra has an ARM processor on the system chip, then it would
seem to fundamentally be an ARM processor.  It is a rather amazing
ecosystem where linux/google/ARM/nvidia/asus combine to produce
something like that, which was probably never envisaged by any of them
10 years ago.

It does run things from the (or at least "an") Android marketplace (I
guess it might be configured to go to a processor-specific
marketplace).  Since I'm such a total noob in this particular area, I
don't know the ins and outs.  But certainly it lists "top free apps"
and "top paid apps" that can be installed.

If someone provides me with an identifiable free app from the Android
Marketplace which was coded in Livecode, then I can go back to the
store and see if I can find, install and run it.

Bernard

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:36 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
>
>> 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....
>
>> Maybe the first thing to find out is if it can run standard Market apps.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com