[plt-scheme] Fwd: Google's Android Open Handset Alliance Project - $10M in prizes and my first Android app

On Nov 13, 2007 3:55 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> So who's going to build a Scheme API for that ? :-)
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How would you go about doing that? The interface is Java, afaik PLT
Scheme is not able to call Java yet, right?
It seems there's nothing in C from looking at this faq;
http://code.google.com/android/kb/general.html

Probably the way to go would be to use a Java enabled Scheme?

> Begin forwarded message: (from a local colleague)
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> > The details are available, for example, at
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> > http://code.google.com/android/adc.html
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> > The SDK, including an emulator, and an Eclipse plugin (ADT) were
> > released today.
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> > I set up a project in Eclipse using one of their samples and ran it
> > in their emulator.
> > A screenshot is attached.
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> > I suspect that many of our students could have a ball with this.
> > And pick up a few $M   ;-)
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> > The fully supported development environment is Java and the Eclipse
> > plugin.
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> > I'm doing all this on Mac (Intel).
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> > I do have one question - how the heck do I charge up the emulated
> > battery on this thing when it runs out?
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