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I haven't been active on this site in recent months, only because I've been working on projects in various other languages.
I'd like to know how many here have jumped into developing Android apps and opengl es 2.x in particular.
My own experience is that learning opengl es 2.x is fun and powerful, but very painful.

I hope to jump into Android development as soon as I can afford a certain programming language.

You should look at Basic4Android.
http://www.basic4ppc.com/index.html

That is the one I am wanting to save up for.

Kuron wrote:I hope to jump into Android development as soon as I can afford a certain programming language.

Java is free, the android SDK/NDK is free, .. you could afford it now.
I've made a prototype for an household power controller app in java with android a year ago. It's very simple.

DarkDragon wrote:

Kuron wrote:I hope to jump into Android development as soon as I can afford a certain programming language.

Java is free, the android SDK/NDK is free, .. you could afford it now.
I've made a prototype for an household power controller app in java with android a year ago. It's very simple.

I would rather use a basic. For now I can use GLBasic. I am typing this from my kindle.

I tried the Android SDK recently.
I was quite shocked it doesn't even support unsigned variables and direct memory access
iOS so far looked much more advanced to me but maybe I'm missing something.

java has no unsigned types and memory access is done with the clas sun.misc.Unsafe

Yeah, this is because Java was meant to be for "anybody," and they knew that most coders never really understood how unsigned math worked when you subtracted a a big number from a smaller number.