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I think Android's formal future will be the guts of Chrome (Mojo) and Dart. Some heavy weight developers are frantically working on it. https://github.com/domo

by afsina 11y ago

I think Android's formal future will be the guts of Chrome (Mojo) and Dart. Some heavy weight developers are frantically working on it. https://github.com/domokit/mojo https://github.com/domokit/mojo https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine

V-2 11y ago
Dart on Android could be nice, I remember Mottier had a blog entry exploring this possibility - http://cyrilmottier.com/2014/06/12/shaping-the-future-of-android-with-dart/ http://cyrilmottier.com/2014/06/12/shaping-the-future-of-and... This being said, I wouldn't expect Google to make any moves towards supporting Dart on Android, or in Android Studio, for that matter. I'm not sure if they see much future in this project, given that they decided against integrating Dart VM into Chrome.
on_and_off 11y ago
There are some great ideas behind Sky, but right now the sample app does not even open anymore on my Nexus 5 and when it did, it just showed trivial content. Displaying one spinning square is not impressive, you need to display 1000 if you want to make an argument for Sky. I don't think that allowing the app to update its code on the fly is a good idea though. You lose the PlayStore automatic app analysis and those 5 seconds delays before launching any screen are not acceptable. Maybe that Sky is the future of Android, but it seems it is still very very far away.
- afsina 11y ago
  You experience is probably dated as they are changing things quite fast. They are making hundreds of commits each week. I think there are more demos but not yet ready ( https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine/tree/fb814cabf61c1bd3bd80ca197e4e8f00b6aad1ce/sky/sdk/example https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine/tree/fb814cabf61c1bd3b... ).
  - on_and_off 11y ago
    I am using the official demo app, which is be updated regularly. It is probably trailing several weeks behind the dev branch, but I don't think it is very far behind.

by afsina 11y ago

V-2 11y ago

Dart on Android could be nice, I remember Mottier had a blog entry exploring this possibility - http://cyrilmottier.com/2014/06/12/shaping-the-future-of-android-with-dart/ http://cyrilmottier.com/2014/06/12/shaping-the-future-of-and... This being said, I wouldn't expect Google to make any moves towards supporting Dart on Android, or in Android Studio, for that matter. I'm not sure if they see much future in this project, given that they decided against integrating Dart VM into Chrome.

on_and_off 11y ago

There are some great ideas behind Sky, but right now the sample app does not even open anymore on my Nexus 5 and when it did, it just showed trivial content. Displaying one spinning square is not impressive, you need to display 1000 if you want to make an argument for Sky. I don't think that allowing the app to update its code on the fly is a good idea though. You lose the PlayStore automatic app analysis and those 5 seconds delays before launching any screen are not acceptable. Maybe that Sky is the future of Android, but it seems it is still very very far away.

afsina 11y ago
You experience is probably dated as they are changing things quite fast. They are making hundreds of commits each week. I think there are more demos but not yet ready ( https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine/tree/fb814cabf61c1bd3bd80ca197e4e8f00b6aad1ce/sky/sdk/example https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine/tree/fb814cabf61c1bd3b... ).
- on_and_off 11y ago
  I am using the official demo app, which is be updated regularly. It is probably trailing several weeks behind the dev branch, but I don't think it is very far behind.