[Vm-dev] SqueakVM for Android and tablet choice?

[Henrik Johansen]

On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:33 59PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> On 1/26/2011 6:51 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:
> 
>> 3. My application requires some speech synthesis. In the PC
>> application prototype I wrote a wrapper which invokes flite [2] and
>> passes the phrase to speak to it via command line (voice is not
>> perfect, but IMHO better than Klatt). Can Squeak access Android TTS
>> service (I am guessing its name is eyes-free [3]) in any way? At last,
>> there is a flite port for Android [4]. In general, is there any way to
>> call Java code from Squeak currently implemented?
> 
> In a general way, no. You can use JNI from C so if you wrote a plugin that makes JNI calls back into Java it should work, but I don't think anyone has done this yet.

There is one: http://www.squeaksource.com/JNIPort .
It uses Alien FFI though, which I doubt is currently included in the Android vm.

Cheers,
Henry