[sclug] Pi and Android app

[Neil Haughton]

On 15 May 2013 13:00, <sclug-request at sclug.org.uk> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
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> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:56:31 +0100
> Subject: [sclug] Winter project
> I've been musing over what actually to do with my Pi apart from play with
> ....
> Is there anyone out there who could (and would be willing) to mentor me, at
> least to get me started, and perhaps offer guidance on how to do the
> Android/Pi stuff? I expect I will be told to use Python on the Pi, which I
> have never done before, and I guess Eclipse for the Android part (although
> I am guessing there). I suppose Mono is out of the question, but that would
> be more comfortable and reduce the learning curve.
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> TIA
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> Neil.
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> From: Jason Rivers <jason at jasonrivers.co.uk>
> To: <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:27:32 +0100
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Winter project
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> As for the Android, if you wish to use Mono, you
> can use the Xamarin toolkit (ontop of mono develop) - annoyingly the
> Xamarin toolkit doesn't have a linux client, but if you're playing with
> .NET, I assume you have access to a windows system, the other downside
> is that to actually put your code onto the Arduino, you need a licence,
> and they're not cheep. so probably not fit for a hobby. with the (very
> limited) Andoird work I've done, I've been in Eclipse on the Android
> SDK.
>
>
Let me see if I have this right - if I  write an Android app for use by me
alone, on my Android phone and Pi, I need to pay for some licence? Even M$
wouldn't stoop to that!

I must have misunderstood. Are you sure?

Neil.


Hope some of that helps.
>
> Jason.
>