Cross platform native bridge

hgy29

I am looking for a way to access platform dependant features directly from lua, so that I could write pure lua plugins dealing with, say, bluetooth for exemple.

For now I have found HotWax for iOS and android bridge on the other side. What would have been really nice is having native access compiled in core gideros (no plugin at all). Also, it looks like there has been some attempt to make a both iOS and Android native bridge plugin (plugins/native in github), but I could find any indication about its actual status. I am not sure which way I should go... Helping develop/finish a core native bridge, or using hotwax plugin + android native bridge ? What about desktop, would be nice to call windows DLL from lua also.

I'd like to get your advice/opinion regarding this matter, things are not yet clear in my mind.

pie

I totally agree with you, if it's possible, I think that cross platform native access in core gideros would be the best option, unfortunately I can't help on how to achieve that, unless you need some android/desktop pc betatester.

Eshan

Developing a core native bridge for gideros may take time. But you can simply use hotwax plugin + android native bridge without much trouble.

hgy29

@Eshan, I've made my mind and I think this is indeed the way to go. Hopefully those two plugins could become part of core gideros at some point.

SinisterSoft

Hopefully a move to LuaJIT will make life easier anyhow - it has a better interface in/out of Lua.

ar2rsawseen

There is one actually:

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/tree/master/plugins/native

The Android bridge is complete and usable (even with wrapped NativeUI lua classes for android)

The IOS one is almost ready (needed to wrap C functions and probably fix bugs etc), unfortunately I hate IOS development, so I did not continue with it.

hgy29

Nice work @ar2rsawseen. I don't like iOS dev very much either, but I'd like to see it finished. I will study the iOS part and try to figure out what is needed to get it done. Perhaps I will need your help...