Flapjax on Android

[nteirlin]

Hello,

I'm a student computer science and my master thesis is about functional reactive programming. 

I did research about developing Android Apps using the frp paradigm. And I've successfully used Flapjax to develop mobile web applications.

This blog post summarizes my observations: Flapjax on Android

I also write an example program with Flapjax (BMI Calculator): BMI Calculator Flapjax

(There is also a tutorial for installing the Flapjax compiler on Mac OS X and for using Flapjax in TextMate)

I would just say that you're doing a great job and I really like the approach of Flapjax (and frp in general).

Hope those post could help or convince some people to use Flapjax! 

[Arjun Guha]

Howdy,

This is awesome! You're absolutely right about mobile device events; Flapjax should support them better. Since extractEventE is a thin wrapper around addEventListener, Flapjax "works" but could do better. Unfortunately, I haven't yet had the time to dive deeply into mobile Web development. If you've got suggestions or patches for Flapjax, they're most welcome.

Arjun

[nteirlin]

Well I had to work with Flapjax in a research context for my thesis. I needed to check what frp language could eventually run on Android. And Flapjax turned out to "work". But don't know if I will have time to really extend it. It's not the goal of my thesis and well I know I will have a lot of work this year already! But if I can give suggestion, someone could try to focus on the different event sources on Android. Because mobile applications have a great interaction with environment (gps, ...) and users (touch screen, accelerometer,..). And if we could represent those event the same way has mouse events in Flapjax this would greatly help mobile web development with Android.