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Konrad Hinsen
09/28/2022, 7:14 PMWhat would be good options for end-user Android programming today? Simple single-purpose personal apps, with simple touch UIs (a few buttons, a menu, maybe a text entry field), but access to all the hardware (sensors, ...) and interaction with other apps (sharing). On-device programmability would be nice, but not essential.
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Ivan Reese
09/29/2022, 4:25 PM[moved from top level, original post by @Jim Meyer]
My immediate thought was https://www.createwithplay.com/ but looks like they're iOS only for now 😕
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Konrad Hinsen
09/30/2022, 10:15 AMiOS-only indeed, but otherwise it looks like just what I am looking for!
The Android version of PicoLisp looks interesting. It's a very idiosyncratic Lisp dialect, implemented in Java with good Java interop. The Android implementation is an app that combines the interpreter with a simple editor/REPL and a WebView for local display of Web UIs written in PicoLisp. Combining well-known building blocks in this way looks like a good approach.
Does anyone here have practical experience with PicoLisp?
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Greg Jarmiolowski
10/02/2022, 10:44 PMDo you mean like https://www.adalo.com/ ?
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Konrad Hinsen
10/03/2022, 5:38 AM@Greg Jarmiolowski Hard to say. The site puts forward "no-code", which doesn't mean much and is certainly not what I care about. What I am looking for is the mobile equivalent of a small shell or Python script. Simple, low-ceremony code for personal use. Not "no code that runs everywhere but you have to learn our framework to get started".
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Greg Jarmiolowski
10/03/2022, 9:45 AMGotcha @Konrad Hinsen. When I looked at that createwithplay I got the wrong impression. Plus in my mind end-user programming mean declarative. This is limited thinking on my part.
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Konrad Hinsen
10/11/2022, 4:53 PMThe Lua-based game engine LÖVE (https://love2d.org/) has an Android implementation that permits developing and running games. Apparently some people are using it for non-game Android applications (much like @Kartik Agaram does in a different context). I don't quite see yet which limitations this implies. A game engine should be plenty good enough for my UI needs, but I am not sure I'd get access to all the system functions I'd want (reading out sensors, for example).