Android RFO Basic!

[JackWebb]

Found this,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .rfo.basic

I've been using it for a few days now, and so far it looks like a winner! It has a few bugs, but is being actively developed. It's open source, licensed under GPL and free! You can produce native APK with no runtimes. Oh, and it's procedural.

There is an active forum as well.

http://rfobasic.freeforums.org

[Joakim Christiansen]

More links:
http://mougino.free.fr/rfo-basic/
http://rfobasic.com/ Why two sites?
Source code: https://github.com/RFO-BASIC

[IdeasVacuum]

Seems to have 2 names - "RFO-Basic" and "Basic!".
Also seems you cannot develop apps on a PC, only on an Android device?

[Danilo]

Also seems you cannot develop apps on a PC, only on an Android device?

Looks like "RFO-BASIC! Launcher" at http://mougino.free.fr/rfo-basic/ is for developing on Windows.

[IdeasVacuum]

The launcher looks very clever.......

[TI-994A]

...You can produce native APK with no runtimes. Oh, and it's procedural.

Technically, it's a purely interpreted language, with the interpreter embedded within the APK along with the BASIC script. In such models, speed is an issue.

Basic4Android is a good alternative, actually compiling to bytecode. Although a required runtime is still embedded within the APK, performance doesn't seem to be compromised too much.

The new Android Development Studio is also pretty cool, and comes with an interface builder. The GUI XML code is automatically generated, but alas, all else is JAVA.

[tj1010]

I don't get why there isn't an xcode and ndk BASIC yet? People must be really busy, because low turn-around on mobile development has a better market potential than anything in SaaS and SEO..

Right not you have to spend a fortune on something that doesn't even use the mobile features and has only bland templates, use something under-developed and buggy, or code and manage your own xcode/ndk library and code everything low level to not get rejected for having something that can inject code.. Oh year and the 1-billion webview frameworks that usually fit the first group..