Red Programming Language 0.6.3

Re:Red Programming Language 0.6.3 by SeanDav on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:56AM (#14795384)

Looks interesting, almost too good to be true! How viable is the Android path and is the plan to fully support Mobile features?

Just trying to get an idea of where Mobile development fits into the scene.

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Re:Red Programming Language 0.6.3 by ZenoArrow on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:24AM (#14795691)

Android GUI support is planned for 0.6.5. iOS support is planned but not started. Can get some sense of the maturity of different features by looking at the feature and version roadmaps:

http://www.red-lang.org/p/roadmap.html

https://trello.com/b/FlQ6pzdB/red-tasks-overview

It is possible to compile console apps that run on Android right now, though AFAIR this feature isn't fully stable yet.

It's also worth noting that Red can be used as an embedded language. So for example, after 0.6.5 is released, you could have an Android app where the GUI was written in Red, but code managing phone features like GPS could be written in another language.

As for supporting mobile features directly, I imagine some of this will be managed by libraries rather than baked into the language runtime. Worth noting that the module system is planned for 0.8.0. However, it should be possible to write feature rich mobile apps long before then.

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Re:Red Programming Language 0.6.3 by ncx on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:29AM (#14795709)

http://www.red-lang.org/2015/12/answers-to-community-questio...

> Will Red get direct access to Android's (and IOS later) camera, location, gyroscope, etc features?

> Absolutely, our GUI engine already features a camera widget (in our Windows backend). The work on Android backend in 0.6.x version will bring wrappers to all the common hardware features.

So yeah, I guess the plan would be to support all mobile features.

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