Re: FOSS mobile support?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Andrew Pennebaker
<andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Corona looks interesting, but it sucks to have to use nonFOSS tools to
> develop. Can we get better support for mobile app development in Lua?

Well, this is Android specific, but Michal Kottman's AndroLua gets Lua
cooking using LuaJava to interface with Dalvik.

I've run with this ball and added a simple framework that makes
writing Android Lua apps much easier.  This framework comes with a
plot library - here is an example of the style:

https://github.com/stevedonovan/AndroLua/blob/master/assets/example/plot.lua

The results on my Nexus 7 look like this:

http://stevedonovan.github.com/files/androluaplot.png

There's an APK with this as one of the demos here:

http://stevedonovan.github.com/files/sk.kottman.androlua.Main.apk

The focus with AndroLua is not cross-platform gaming, but quick
Android app generation.  Cross-platform is a whole other kettle of
fish and for that we would have to get a team together, since I don't
know or do iOS.

steve d.