Travis CI is now green :tada: !!!
I'm trying to migrate from android-studio/gradle
hi! Starting a new android project (actually, it'll be part of a larger project written in akka on the server, scalajs on the client and I need an android portion as well) . So what's the status of scala on android? 6 years ago I was able to use scala successfully on android, but I imagine time has changed, and it doesn't seem like the community is very active on android. Where are we? What's the toolchain? which versions of sbt/scala/java should I use?
@rleibman the community (here) is not active, obviously :(
Though that won't address ios.
IMO without sbt 1.x support and scala not really supporting android as a target (only really supports jvm, native, and js), building android projects with scala is an uphill battle. It's a lot of fun, but it comes with a lot of downsides. It also makes it harder to attract experienced android developers.
Though it's been 6+ months and I haven't heard a peep, I tried contacting the presenter on linkedin for info and haven't received an answer.
I'm already doing a lot of work with scalajs and react, so taking the next step and using react native sounds like a solid plan.
just another layer on top of the jvm. With react native, the jvm is running a webview and the webview is running your code. Scala already targets the jvm, with react native you have to target js (scalajs). Which works just fine, but feels like extra layers when scala is already a JVM language. You also only really get access to APIs that react-native exposes and not the actually native java APIs from scala code. Writing scala targeting the jvm gives you full access to all android APIs.
Hello everyone, it's my first time with Scala on Android I would like to ask you can I use latest version of Scala, sbt and android build tools or do they have to be specific versions mentioned on https://scala-android.org/quickstart/ ? I can see that the latest release was on 24th of February 2017 which is a long time ago is this project maintained and keept updated to never Android versions?
hey, currently trying to migrate my project, following
quickstart section gives me java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema once I type gen-android com.mypackage.test test, it does manage to create a project structure despite this but then running android:run gives [error] No such setting/task. Any hint on how to fix this?
exactly the same error
also java8 or java9
@pfn Would you like to add my project https://github.com/doofin/scala4Android at sbt-android 's readme Examples section? This might be more friendly to new users.
I've made a phone app with that tech (https://apkpure.com/donemychores/com.dienique.housechores.android), but what I'm looking for is an up-to-date way of writing android apps with scala.
There are some efforts for supporting scala 2.12 and sbt 1.0,you can find those experimental branch in github
