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Why not a native app framework for Go on Android? Sigh. Been waiting so long.

• afsina 11y ago
  One reason is that because hordes of Java developers would not like the looks of it.
  • piggybox 11y ago
    Sad but true
• aikah 11y ago
  Ain't going to happen. There is no real support for Go on Android at first place, sure you can compile Go programs on Android , but that's about how useful Go is on that platform. And frankly have you ever tried to write a desktop app with a GUI in Go ? Because you'd know how painful it is.
  • SoreGums 11y ago
    The app I want to write is basically a service that just does stuff (with files) based on signals from other devices/services. The UI is actually client side webapp. So I was hoping to write the service bit in Go which then would run on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android. Oh well.
    • afsina 11y ago
      Dart can do this already. It works in Server Side just fine (Win, Mac, Linux - x86,Mips, Arm).
    • xxgreg 11y ago
      Flutter is build on top of the mojo. This exposes IPC interfaces to the devices. There are Java, Dart, C++, and I believe also go bindings for this. Not sure if this is in a usable state - but worth a look. https://github.com/domokit/mojo/tree/master/mojo/go https://github.com/domokit/mojo/tree/master/mojo/go https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/mojo-dev https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/mojo-...
• smt88 11y ago
  This is the best it's going to get, it seems: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/app https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/app