This week in Discobot (40.2011)
After some hectic times at work caused by very tight deadlines and me getting married in the beginning of September we finally managed with Erik to get back to working on Discobot last week. Some of you have probably already noticed that we have a talk on Discobot scheduled at Groovy & Grails Exchange 2011 in London which takes place in early December. Although the progress is good there is still quite a lot of work to be done on Discobot and we decided that probably one evening a week will not be enough. On the other hand knowing about...
read moreThis (two) week(s) in Discobot (30-31.2011)
Each week, we work on the Discobot project, which goal it is to make Groovy run on Android. While that in itself isn’t the biggest problem, as you can read in our previous blog posts, making developing for Android using Groovy and making sure we are feature complete, well, let’s say it’s challenging. Current efforts are twofold: one is developing a set of developer tools using Gradle, on which Marcin is focusing the most. On the other hand, we need some tools to make sure our version of Groovy works on Android, which is what...
read moreThis (two)week(s) in Discobot (27-28.2011)
We continued our work on getting Groovy working on Android over the past two weeks. Erik has made quite a good progress with the tests suite for Discobot. What he has achieived by now now is a slightly modified original Groovy test suite running against the compiled but not packaged (jared) code of our patched version of Groovy on his laptop. And of course it’s all green! As we removed some unnecessary classes and had to patch other, because the Dalvik VM doesn’t provide all the classes that regular Java does, Erik also had to...
read moreThis week in Discobot (26.2011)
Currently, we (Erik Pragt and Marcin Erdmann) are working on getting Groovy to run on Android and make the process as smooth as possible for other developers. On this blog regular updates will be posted to inform you about the progress we made, the problems we ran into and how we solved them. This is the first episode of ‘This week in Discobot’. As you’ve probably seen on twitter, Erik managed to finally run a really simple android application where the main activity class is a groovy class. We had some problems with...
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