Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on Android

[Kristopher Micinski <krismicinski@gmail.com>]

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I have a large amount of Android experience.

The basic problem with running OCaml on Android is that pretty much
everything (minus a few system services / daemons, for example) runs inside
a Dalvik VM.  Everything that is a "real app" thus uses the facilities of
the SDK to interact with the underlying system.  (Various services such as
internet can be opened via a raw socket, and are protected via lower level
system modifications.)

So while it's possible to write pieces of apps in OCaml, I don't think
anyone's taken the time to generate wrappers around the Android SDK.  I was
very skeptical that this could be done efficiently since you'd be jumping
through JNI back and forth to bytecode / native code a lot, but I've talked
to someone on the Haskell-cafe mailing list (I'll try to dig up the email)
of someone who's said the penalty isn't as high as you'd think.

Kris



On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

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> Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.****
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