Thread: Meego vs Android apps (C or Java?)
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2011-01-22 , 08:21
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
To the threadcreator:

Are you saying apps written for Android 2.3 is working on old Android like 1.5? I dont think soo!
No. I' just saying tha apps written for Android 2.2 will work for all phones out there tha use Android 2.2 and most probably in most future androids (unless of course it requires specific hardware like a magnetometer).

Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
Also you saying Meego is written in C, well if you amean lowlevel API its true. If you mean highlevel API like QT then its C++ and QML(javascript based) and sometimes python(not officially supported) language like QML and python is similar to VM atleast for the developers.
I'talking about the application packages. Not the OS.

And python is not considered VM-base like Java. It is conasidered to be interpreted and it doesn't need recompilation, even if it uses a VM internally.

As for QML, it is not adopted yet so until I see something big written in it I prefer not to consider it.