Android Externals

[Andrew Kluthe]

It's a shame because we use dropbox for some things in one of my in-house
desktop apps and we are considering gathering information from the field
using android tablets. Dropbox recently released a new SDK for integrating
dropbox tighter into your mobile apps. I was asked if this would work nice
in livecode native android apps. :\ It won't.

Well it appears that part of the modularisation work being done for going
> open source will allow us to develop more integrated extensions to the
> language.
>

Relating to this, no one has talked about it, but what is going to happen
if the kickstarter doesn't succeed? Does that crush all these wonderful
things we are already dreaming about doing with a GPL'd livecode?



On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Monte Goulding
<monte at sweattechnologies.com>wrote:

>
> On 07/02/2013, at 11:33 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
>
> > Just to make sure I am correct, there is currently no way to make
> externals
> > for android?
>
> Yes, you are correct
>
> > And if that's still the case, why?
>
> I'm not sure. It very nearly happened about 6 months ago but then it
> didn't.
> >
> > It's honestly the only thing keeping me from considering livecode as a
> > realistic choice for mobile developement.
>
> Well it appears that part of the modularisation work being done for going
> open source will allow us to develop more integrated extensions to the
> language. I assume this will be a virtual replacement for externals (or
> basically be externals with syntax stuff) and need to be cross platform.
> Perhaps that's why android externals never happened because the concept was
> superseded by these extensions...
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> M E R Goulding
> Software development services
> Bespoke application development for vertical markets
>
> mergExt - There's an external for that!
>
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Regards,

Andrew Kluthe
andrew at ctech.me