Android Question Android L & Basic4Android & AOT

[Osi]

Please see: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/google-previews-next-version-of-android-codenamed-l-release/

Key paragraph ...

With ART, Google ships uncompiled code through the Play Store and compiles it at install time. ART uses AOT compiling, but it is compiled on the device, meaning it has much of the information JIT has about the hardware it is running on. This, combined with a modern, complete overhaul with a focus on speed, means that ART should be a lot faster than Dalvik. The only downside is longer install times and maybe a few incompatible apps from developers who didn't take advantage of the KitKat preview. We'll be sure to give L the full benchmark treatment as part of our review.

Will this affect B4A much? Especially since Kindle (and other devices that forked off of Android) does not have AOT?

Meaning, in order to support Android L, the source code is not compiled on our dev machine, but instead is compiled on the user's machine.

BTW: the SDK comes out tomorrow. YAY!

 

[bitstra]

... that was fast!

 

[NeoTechni]

B4A v3.82 will be released in the next few days and will fix the modal dialogs issue (which also affects debug mode).

Is there a way to give us the same control over the message queue? I'd love to be able to return to the inside of a sub somehow.

 

[Erel]

It is technically not possible.

 

[NeoTechni]

Damn. That'd be very handy