haXe Forum > haxe for the Android

• Gregory Mar 02 at 17:16

  Hello, I am very new to haxe (but it looks easy to pick up ;), and I am sure this has been asked before.

  Is there a tutorial out there to develop an Android app (of any size) using haxe?

  I appreciate your feedback, thanks

• Kristopher Reed Mar 02 at 18:57

  I am not entirely sure, but, from what I have gathered, there isn't a usable Java target for Haxe. There is one in development: http://code.google.com/p/haxejava/ , but I don't know how usable it is yet.

• Justin L Mills Mar 02 at 18:59

  I have asked before, currently there is work on java related ports, which was discussed in the last meeting and there was a push to support Adroid, but currently there is no tested approach to android development with haXe.
  The issue seems to be that haXe is a dynamic language and Java a static language, so a port is tricky but there are people slowly making head way.
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  If your looking for an option right now I suggest PhoneGap, its javascript based so you may be able to create it with the haXe javascript?
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  Another option for experimentation is android-scripting (ASE) but it does not support haXe ( but some possible targets... ), I am not really sure if it would be possible to create a standalone application with it. Let me know if you find out. Some of the examples seem to break after google pushed the multitouch update, but I have not updated ASE to see if they have been fixed.
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  Ofcourse Android will support flash 10.1 in the next few months, the nexus has a very robust browser and like the iphone it seems to support haXe javascript fine, I tried it with javascript haxe sandy3D and there seems to be some issues but this is canvas, so for straight haXe javascript should work better than IE.
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  If your coming from a flash background, there is a port of Fixel (as3 game engine) to Java, I compiled it and it seems to work quite well on nexus ( although needs mods to actually play it) but apparently slow on most android devices. I think there are better game engines for android java that simplify development.
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  For transfering apps to phone I found "Bluetooth File Transfer" works very well and am very impressed with the android textmate bundles for android so really you need to use java for android dev, hopefully haXe will come in the future :)
  

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