[Vm-dev] iPhone security (Re: Squeak + Android and Dalvik!?)
Göran Krampe
goran at krampe.se
Fri Oct 23 09:37:04 UTC 2009
Hi all!
Some interesting points:
On Android you can install an app just by clicking on it in the web
browser and bam, it will install. AND it can contain native libraries in
C or whatever BUT AFAICT it needs to "be" a Dalvik Java app around it.
For example, someone just published Quake wrapped in a very thin
Java/Dalvik layer around Quake as a C lib working using OpenGL ES.
THUS... Android is MUCH more fun for Squeak. There is no central
bottleneck like the App store.
Secondly, there are TONS of Android phones coming out the next few
months. The one that most waits for is "The Droid" from Motorola
(Motorola is going "all in" on Android):
http://droiddoes.com
They take iPhone head on :)
Note also that the Mono folks are all over Android now, the mono JIT
seems to run fine, see below.
Finally, some links:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/01/dalvik-vs-mono.html
Note that Dan Bernstein (designer of Dalvik?) comments it below.
regards, Göran
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