PilBox – Building Mobile Apps in PicoLisp

Re:PilBox – Building Mobile Apps in PicoLisp by sxp on Sunday March 12, 2017 @06:57PM (#13853734)

Another good option if you want to write Android apps in Lisp is lein-droid [1] which allows you to use Clojure on Android. This means you can use any standard Android API, library or SDK in your app without additional bridge components.

The initial build & deploy times for Clojure on Android are annoying, but using a REPL to edit your Android app dynamically is amazing.

[1] https://github.com/clojure-android/lein-droid

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Re:PilBox – Building Mobile Apps in PicoLisp by Regenaxer on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:44AM (#13855725)

Note that in PilBox you can also directly call the standard Android API, and use the REPL of course.

Taking a picture, for example, needs only

   (android~takePicture (tmp "img")
      '((Intent)
         (... do something with the image) ) )

The function 'takePicture' is in "lib/android.l":

   (de takePicture (Dst Fun)
      (startActivityForResult Fun
         "android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE"
         "output" (fileUri Dst) ) )

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Re:PilBox – Building Mobile Apps in PicoLisp by nikki93 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:28PM (#13854532)

You can also use ClojureScript on React Native for both iOS and Android. Lets you use things like reagent or re-frame that work well with persistent data structures. It's actually super easy with Expo, which makes it so you don't have to do any Xcode or Android Studio stuff: https://docs.expo.io/versions/v14.0.0/guides/using-clojuresc...

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Re:PilBox – Building Mobile Apps in PicoLisp by bschwindHN on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:10AM (#13855603)

I would highly recommend this! I use re-natal and it lets you target Android and iOS (simultaneously if you really want to) with live code reloading and native UI elements. Reagant + re-frame is a very pleasant setup for UI development and handling data flows.

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Re:PilBox – Building Mobile Apps in PicoLisp by swah on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:02PM (#13924071)

You mentioned doing an app with re-natal around 3 months ago - did you succeeded with it? Sorry for spamming here, no email on profile ;)

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