marcomq/nimview_android

A Nim/Webview based helper to create Android applications with Nim/C/C++ and HTML/CSS

DEPRECATED

The source code has been moved to the normal nimview repository: https://github.com/marcomq/nimview

You can still get the code from this repo by performing npx degit marcomq/nimview/examples/android nimview_android

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A Nim/Webview based helper to create Android applications with Nim/C/C++ and HTML/CSS

Android Studio implementation of Nimview

This project uses Android Webview as UI layer. The back-end is supposed to be written in Nim, C/C++ or - if it doesn't need to be ported to other platforms - Kotlin or Java. As Android Webview doesn't has as much debugging capabilities as Chrome or Firefox, it would be recommended to write most of the UI in a web application with nimview in debug mode + npm autoreload first and then test these changes on Android later.

The recommended workflow would be:

(installation)
git clone https://github.com/marcomq/nimview_android.git
cd app/src/main/nim
nimble install -d -y
cd ../..
cd nimview/examples/svelte
npm install 
cd ../../../../..

(development)
(open two terminals/shells, t1 and t2)
t1: nim cpp -r -d:useServer app/src/main/nim/custom_nimview.nim
t2: npm run dev --prefix app/src/nimview/examples/svelte
open browser at http://localhost:5000
(optional) modify nim / html / js code in VSCode
restart nim server to apply changes on nim code
press F5 if browser doesn't refresh automatically after js changes

(release and testing)
compile project with android studio, test, perform changes if required

The nimview directory is a git subtree of https://github.com/marcomq/nimview. The steps performed were:

 git subtree add --prefix app/src/nimview https://github.com/marcomq/nimview.git main --squash
 git subtree pull --prefix app/src/nimview --squash  https://github.com/marcomq/nimview.git main

To updated to the latest Nimview version, perform the git subtree pull ... command above.