how start develop with lazarus for android
lazarus / 43-Android

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laguna · 2021-02-25 06:04

how start develop with lazarus for android

thanks

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trev · 2021-02-25 06:42

Free Pascal + Lazarus Wiki: Android Portal.

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Handoko · 2021-02-25 06:51

The hardest part is the installation, which including building the
cross compiler.

If you're a Windows user, read here:
https://github.com/jmpessoa/lazandroidmodulewizard/tree/master/docs

If you're a Linux user, read here:
https://github.com/jmpessoa/lazandroidmodulewizard/tree/master/docs/li
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Note:
Don't use the tutorial written by Handoko, that works only on older
versions of LAMW, SDK, NDK.

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rsu333 · 2021-02-26 05:05

LAZARUS is best at all for windows as well as android. Very simple nd
easy to understand. Laz4android [LAMW] has  main roll in it.
 For beginner LazToApk is best illustration . Then LAMW manager is
very useful.

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laguna · 2021-02-26 10:50

Is possible on mac Catalina?

Thanks!

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Handoko · 2021-02-26 11:51

I can be wrong I haven't used LAMW for a while but this is what I
knew/remembered:

LAMW (Lazarus Android Module Wizard) is a set of components for
building Android application, which can be considered as the
replacement of Lazarus visual components (TButtons, TEdit, TImage,
etc) and it has it's own form designer. LAMW also allows you to build
non visual applications for Android.

Laz4Android is a set of tools that include precompiled FreePascal
Android units for x86, ARM and JVM. Without Laz4Android you can build
Android app too but you need to manually do the cross-compilation,
which is not easy.

LazToApk is a tool to automatically download all the necessary things
for developing Android app using Lazarus. It will download
Laz4Android, LAMW, Android SDK, Android NDK, etc and configure all the
settings.

What I did was using Lazarus + LAMW only, yes you can build Android
app without using Laz4Android and LazToAPK. I'm not sure but I think
you can use them on Catalina.

I ever tried Laz4Android. It really makes life easier, unfortunately
it only run on Windows. But because I use Linux so I do not follow
their development.

LazToApk is a great tool especially for beginner. You just sit down
and wait it to download all the required files, which are several GBs
in the size and let it prepares all the settings for you.
Unfortunately, it depends on Laz4Android. So if Laz4Android does not
support Mac, so do LazToApk.

Is it possible to build Android app using Lazarus on Mac?
Short answer, yes.
Better answer, don't do it.

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trev · 2021-02-26 23:35

Quote from: Handoko on February 26, 2021, 12:51:56 pmIs it possible to
build Android app using Lazarus on Mac?
Short answer, yes.
Better answer, don't do it.

Even better answer: Setup a VM for Android development running Windows
or Linux. See the Wiki Multiplatform Programming Guide.