MAmachinesbuddy·Jun 4, 2019
It reminded me of Scaloid https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid
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Scaloid makes your Android code easy to understand and maintain.
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9 sourcesI believe a big part of the famous Javascript semantics can be emulated in Scala with a library.
Once upon a time I wrote a toy Android app with Scaloid, and tried to use some on-device print-debugging. toast("foo") worked just fine. toast(42) crashed at runtime. Turns out Scaloid offers an implicit conversion from Int to CharSequence, and it even doesn't turn 42 into anything like "42". I'm not kidding [1]. In Android you normally have "resource identifiers" as integers with no compile-time type information, and then at runtime you never use these as actual numbers, instead you every single time pass them to some function like getText or getDrawable. Sound like the perfect case for implicit conversion, right?
[1] https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid/blob/b4fcbd0c25870941af7...
In Scala: Understanding implicitsLess Painful Android GUIs with Scala
1 points · Open discussionYou don't need to use Java for Android or for the JVM, you can just use Scala. See Scaloid [1] for setting up Scala for Android and Scala Async [2] to get that nice "async" syntax you've mentioned.
[1] https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid
[2] https://github.com/scala/async
In Understanding .NET 2015Scaloid: Less Painful Android Development with Scala
3 points · Open discussionFor Android developers interested in building apps in Scala check out Scaloid: https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid.
In Java DevelopersFor those interested in other Java alternatives on Android, check out Scaloid: https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid.
In Groovy Now Runs on AndroidWhy is that? Tooling support at this point is much better for Scala than it is for many JVM languages, including Xtend.
Checkout: https://github.com/pocorall/scaloid
You can do that in combination with IntelliJ IDEA for example, which has awesome support for both Scala and Android. Google's new Android Studio is actually the same as IntelliJ Android plugin that they distribute as part of their open-source distribution. It's also the best IDE ever.
In Xtend – Modernized JavaLess painful Android development with Scala
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