XSF Discussion - 2013-04-04

kevin: can we help you?

stpeter: hi. I want to discuss something

I want to create an android app.

It is important to do it in java? Or?

i think android basically presumes java

Hmm..so without java it won't work

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

JDK 6 <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html> (JRE alone is not sufficient)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2419556/alternatives-to-java-for-android-development

looks like you can use C or C++ as well via NDK

Hmm.. Thanks. After learning golang and haskell. I have to go back to java then. Wew

you can code android apps in java, mono/c# or python now

mono/c# has full support and even an IDE and emulator

bear: Python? Hmm. Python will be good. I have good experience of it

it's python+qt

but the python apps have their own complexity because your dealing with another full layer of abstraction to the java api

bear: my app will be based on Jabber/XMPP chat. What do you think now? Java? Or c#

I would stick Java or c# -- because it's XMPP it all depends on if that language has support for the XMPP features you need (unless you like writing libraries ;)

the advantage of Java is that their are already open source clients written that you can jump start from

Ah. Thanks dude. Have a great day ahead

yw

good luck!

Thanks guys.

Or C++, then you get to use Swiften :p

also a very good point

Huh. I guess, java will be better because will be adding some new features to the app(including Jabber/XMPP chat)

the best will be the one that you can code in to get the app done

(said honestly)

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