Support building native Android applications with Dart

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This issue was originally filed by seb...@deleuze.fr

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In addition to client and server side applications, it would be awesome if a Dart Android SDK was released, in order to allow building native Android applications with Dart.

Dart would be a great alternative to Java for developing Android application efficiently, and Android API could take advantage of the language.

It seems there is already an experimental support for building Android application with dart:core API : https://code.google.com/p/dart/wiki/Android

So the purpose of this issue is about improving this experimental support in order to get the whole Dart API, Android SDK and Dart editor support for Android application.

This is a huge effort, but with potential huge benefits for both Dart and Android developers !

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This comment was originally written by loic.descott...@gmail.com

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The best thing would be to have a Dart VM for android!

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This comment was originally written by @zoechi

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Dart VM for Android already exists
https://code.google.com/p/dart/wiki/Android
see the Limitations section for more details.

You need access to all C and Java APIs to create useful apps. Currently there are only command line apps possible I suppose.

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This comment was originally written by loic.descott...@gmail.com

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Thanks, I was thinking it was currently just a proof of concept VM

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This comment was originally written by seb...@deleuze.fr

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Yes Dart VM for Android is quite advanced since Chrome (including Android version) with Dart support has already been announced. What is missing is all Android API and tooling, and perhaps a Dart to Art (the new Android runtime) compiler ...

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This comment was originally written by loic.des...@gmail.com

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Ok thanks for the details
Indeed don't know if it would be simpler to have a Dart VM for native apps in addition to Art, or to develop a Dart to Art compiler

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Added Triaged label.

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This comment was originally written by yulian...@yuvaks.com

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I think this would be a great idea. A seperate Dart VM alongside ART would require dart implementations of everything, while if they use Ahead-of-Time Compiling or some form of bytecode conversion to ART, then it would just be the Dart syntax ontop of the Android/Java libraries and would have interop similar to how Apple's Swift and ObjC, or any other JVM language.

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This comment was originally written by william.quartz...@gmail.com

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Currently my entire development outside of the day-job is in Dart. To see Dart come to Android would be a watershed event!

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This comment was originally written by jonapu...@gmail.com

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Make it so.

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This comment was originally written by dit...@adelieland.eu

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@Commenters: Please, I stared this issue so that I would get notifications of outcomes for this; I would appreciate if you didn't comment just to show your support for this issue (because that's what the star is for). Thank you.

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This comment was originally written by @vicb

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getting closer ?
https://code.google.com/p/dart/source/detail?r=37291

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This comment was originally written by mihaiir...@gmail.com

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I mostly develop in Android but started learning Dart only because I heared of its resemblance to Java and thought that one day google would do a leap of faith and put the language inside Android. I eman look at Firefox OS. Theyve put their Gecko Engine and it works. I think it would be a verry bold step for Google to push Dart onto Android, and at first to make a smooth transition offer paralell versions so to not break he comaptibility. I am really excited to see Google put Dart in Android. I mean why shouldn't they. There is a Python Script Layer and A Qt Library Layer already running ontop of Android.

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This comment was originally written by poggos...@gmail.com

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Put your heart at rest, they were pretty adamant yesterday at the fireside chat. Not going to happen.

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This comment was originally written by luca.mtudo...@gmail.com

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Sorry to have your hearts broken too:
http://youtu.be/K3meJyiYWFw?t=1m58s
http://youtu.be/K3meJyiYWFw?t=26m

Also sorry for the spam.

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This comment was originally written by mihaiirimies...@gmail.com

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@ 15 pog. Well, if you've seen the recent talk at Google I/O regarding the internals of the new ART runtime, they said that ART is build in such a way that you can plugin more than one compilers. Theoretically one can plugin a Dart VM compiler thus incorporating the DART VM inside ART. ART is thought to be an ecosystem of runtimes. And my guess is that Android will futurely support more than one compilers easily. Think for a moment about this. Through the help of a compiler framework Android could cover not only Java but Dart, maybe eaven iOS as an emulated runtime.