Create Apps for *phones* with #Vala !??? Yes, of course, for #LinuxPhones!
Check out the #postmarketos wiki for supported devices, maybe yours works: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Main_Page
You ask, which Vala apps already support phones? The answer is: Almost all that use #libadwaita!
1. Go with the #GNOME App template in #GNOMEBuilder
2. install the "qemu-user-static" package on your host
3. select ARM as target architecture and click the export bundle button in Builder
4. transfer it to the phone and run it!
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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
dos@librem.one
@vala_lang Just apps? We used to have complete smartphone middleware daemons handling modems and other stuff in Vala back in 2009 😁
https://gitlab.com/freesmartphone/cornucopia
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@dos nobody stops you! But that is a bit harder than just exporting and installing a flatpak :)
You probably need to compile natively on your smartphone.
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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
dos@librem.one@vala_lang I mean, I was running it on my phone back then 😁 It used to be cross-compiled with OpenEmbedded, as compiling on the phone was barely viable back then. Today it wouldn't be a big deal, although today FSO is quite obsolete anyway 😉 Just a curio about "running Vala on your phone".
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Pavel Machek
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@pavel if you prefer Rust, sure :)
Though Vala is not at all just a thin wrapper over C, it has a complete type system, supporting very advanced object orientation, and generally a very high level syntax, also with a certain memory safety to it. Which C all doesn't have.
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