pindah

Tools for building Android applications with Mirah

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FlemishBeeCycle·Aug 27, 2011

I'd recommend Mirah (https://github.com/mirah/mirah) and Pindah (https://github.com/mirah/pindah) as an almost Ruby over Ruboto for Android due to slow startup times from the poor performance of Reflection on Dalvik.

In Ruby on Android: Ruboto

FlemishBeeCycle·May 25, 2011

Mirah is what finally got me started with Android development. Coming from a Ruby background there's practically zero learning curve, plus you can install it from RubyGems (which when using RVM makes it dead-simple). That being said, for my first application I decided to do it in plain old Java - since I had never worked with Java, I imagined that a rudimentary understanding of its workings would help me down the road in debugging issues that might arise when working with Mirah (somewhat like knowing JavaScript before working with CoffeeScript). There's even a tool for writing Mirah for Android called Pindah https://github.com/mirah/pindah/ . All in all, it's quite a nice package.

In C'mon, stop writing Java for Android

technomancy·Feb 19, 2011

I'm skeptical towards the ASE approach; Tim Bray's post on the subject has a good overview of the challenges inherent in getting nicer languages working for Android apps: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/07/28/Ruby-and-P... My money is on Mirah, a new fast, lightweight JVM language that feels like Ruby but compiles to identical-to-Java bytecode: https://github.com/mirah/pindah I don't think shoehorning existing runtimes is a suitable long-term approach.

In Python, JRuby on the Android Platform in 10 Steps