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mojuba · 2019-10-27 08:09:25

Something just crossed my mind while reading the question, that Swift could be a good candidate. Turns out there are compatibility layers that are based on Swift:

https://www.scade.io

https://academy.realm.io/posts/swift-on-android/

https://blog.readdle.com/why-we-use-swift-for-android-db449f...

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niutech | karma 1269 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2015-12-04 03:03:10+00:00

Better alternative is Groovy: https://jaxenter.com/groovy-is-the-swift-alternative-for-and...

pux0r3 | karma 19 | avg karma 1.06 · | 2016-04-18 12:54:39+00:00

I would look into AllJoyn. I've been playing with it for an IoT application, but haven't attempted to build an Android client yet.

https://allseenalliance.org/framework

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loumf | karma 2244 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2015-01-28 19:50:53

Possible portability to Android -- might take some work, but much less than it would be to port Swift.

From an architecture point-of-view, there is ReactCocoa.

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cesarb | karma 14181 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2018-08-10 09:46:28

There's syncthing for Android: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android

perfectstorm | karma 618 | avg karma 2.76 · | 2022-08-19 17:28:49

maybe there's an app on Android already or maybe OP wants to learn iOS programming/SwiftUI/Swift.

clumsysmurf | karma 7249 | avg karma 6.3 · | 2024-05-29 22:31:06

DuckDB has Swift bindings, but unfortunately, afaik, nothing official for Android. If anyone has gotten it working on Android I'd love to hear about it.

kriro | karma 5203 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2015-07-06 13:31:44+00:00

There's also http://reapp.io/ It can produce apps that run on Android but last time I checked the documentation was pretty iOS centric.

lewisl9029 | karma 3779 | avg karma 3.88 · | 2015-03-18 23:47:15+00:00

Syncthing-GTK works pretty well as an alternative to the web interface. Really should probably be advertised alongside their Android client.

Kliment | karma 5833 | avg karma 3.5 · | 2010-01-26 13:54:38+00:00

Why not Python? Maemo, Android and Nokia's s60 (at least) support it fairly well. Also, if you have a decent idea, have a look at http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html

jackdaniel | karma 584 | avg karma 3.87 · | 2016-02-29 11:40:36+00:00

Embeddable Common-Lisp has now official Android support. It is also known to build for iPhone. It allows connecting via swank to the running application:

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/ecl/ecl-android

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer.

Edit: add main project website, clarify iPhone support status.

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Apofis | karma 450 | avg karma 0.86 · | 2015-03-19 14:28:20+00:00

Android actually lets you choose the app to handle the link though, which is nice. I'm sure iOS will catch up in this regard at some point.

niutech | karma 1269 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2019-05-06 17:20:36

You can also write a native app for Android/iOS/tvOS/Windows/macOS/Linux and a few others, all using the same language and framework - C++ and Qt - see: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html

pserwylo | karma 1018 | avg karma 4.24 · | 2012-09-14 12:55:31+00:00

The free community edition [0] supports Android just fine. I used it for a while for my own personal projects and found it very snappy indeed.

[0] http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_m...

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lomereiter | karma 137 | avg karma 2.11 · | 2017-11-09 16:37:16+00:00

It could have better documentation but here's the Java client for Android: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android There's also a Swift client available: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/ios/

whoisnatelam | karma -1 | avg karma -0.2 · | 2014-04-02 18:04:18+00:00

Looks like we can develop for this. If you're an Android developer you should check out all the specs and docs here: http://bit.ly/1pLH83y

beagle3 | karma 16421 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2018-05-08 21:14:19+00:00

Anbox[0] already does that. It's not official, it's not from Google, it's not perfect, but .. it works, and integrates the android apps into your system (does not have a weird VM or few gigs of ram overhead).

[0] https://anbox.io/

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dracoli | karma 31 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2013-04-02 18:57:03+00:00

This is really nice. Huge time saver for apps that only need a basic backend for certain functionalities.

Can this potentially also work for other mobile platforms?

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agersant | karma 104 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2018-03-30 22:23:28+00:00

I made one for myself! It's not the most mature solution or the most fully-featured but I think it's good at what it does:

https://github.com/agersant/polaris

Android client: https://github.com/agersant/polaris-android

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bpye | karma 1802 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2023-02-07 17:17:29

I suspect the macOS version is more useful for that than the Android version.