Is it possible to write a Vala application and get it to run on an Android device?
A:
Technically, yes, except that there currently is no Vala to Android translator.
Yann Ramin
2010-06-14 21:24:55
Well, there is a C/C++ dev kit for Android. Would that mean you wouldn't need a translator? Wouldn't the main difficulty come from trying to run it on ARM or does Vala take care of that somehow?
GnomeCubed
2010-06-14 22:12:27
Vala is designed to call GNOME/Gtk APIs, including GObject, which simply don't exist on Android. You could in theory retarget the Vala compiler to use a different model and produce Java instead of C, but that would be a huge undertaking.Android UIs must interface in Java. The Native Toolkit can't produce a whole application (at best it can only render to OpenGL ES).
Yann Ramin
2010-06-14 22:22:53