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Non-portable. While android primarily runs on ARM boxes, the same APKs, barring any native code libraries, will run on x86 devices running android, MIPS devices
by Sanddancer 13y ago
Non-portable. While android primarily runs on ARM boxes, the same APKs, barring any native code libraries, will run on x86 devices running android, MIPS devices, etc.
- melling 13y agoCompile on install? Compile to something else then compile to binary? PNaCl?
- voidlogic 13y agoI would go with "compile on install"
- Lexarius 13y agoMake Dalvik/JVM a compile target for Go? There is at least one project working on this.
- voidlogic 13y agoGo is portable... you just need to compile on the target. Go is write once, compile and run everywhere. Compiling would be part of the app install process; Compiling Go is much lighter than compiling C anyway.
- mtgx 13y agoGoogle should've never cared about making Android work on x86. The ARM environment is an order of magnitude more competitive than the x86 one. So it's not like they need it for the "competition". If they'd like to have Android on PC's eventually, well they don't have to worry about that either, since ARM is disrupting Intel anyway, and will be the architecture of the future, being pushed by both Android and iOS, the most popular platforms right now (and even Windows is promoting it, although in a smaller way).
- voidlogic 13y agoThere are MIPS android devices too, I have one and it works well except when people write junks of their app in C and didn't upload the MIPS binary. Maybe with the recent POWER announcement we will see POWER devices.