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Processing is Coming to Android [Processing, Android]

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Peter Kirn of createdigitalmotion.com has just posted an interesting article about the news of Processing coming to Android. The news was first picked up by Marius Watz few days ago on Twitter mentioning that Ben Fry added a processing.android trunk to the SVN repository signing that android may be coming to Android. Here is an extract from Peter Kirn’s article on CDM:

..doing Processing development for Android promises the same streamlined, sketchbook-like production flow that Processing does on desktop. To create Android apps, you simply set Processing to “Android mode.” (Right now, you have to point to Google’s SDK, but that happens only once and may be removed in future versions.) Hit run, and your sketch launches in the Emulator. Plug in an Android device via USB, and it’ll run on your device. Soon, you should have one-click-export of apps in the way that you do Processing desktop apps.

Read more on CDM

This is great new for creative code on Android platform. Whilst iPhone has enjoyed openFrameworks support and soon Flash, Android has been slightly left in the dark. Although processing on Android is still early work in progress, you can find more information on android.processing.org

For great Processing projects on CAN, see here.

(image above: Decode Re-Code by Lia / made in Processing)

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Posted on: 14/12/2009

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  • peterkirn

    Actually, one small correction — there are already Android phones with Flash, so Android isn't exactly behind iPhone there. That said, Processing (and Java, for that matter, with OpenJDK) is more open than Flash is.

    Also, unlike openFrameworks on iPhone, because Processing is Java, you can write the sketch and talk to the phone's standard APIs in one language.

    But it is certainly true that iPhone's media support has tended to be better than Android's — no argument there, and there are still some obstacles to matching iPhone's performance. We're just spoiled now with phones, which is a good thing. :)

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  • http://www.creativeapplications.net Filip

    I have unfortunately had very little contact with Android but would love to play more. It will be very interesting to see how Processing community makes use of Android… Exciting times ahead….

    If there is anyone with an Android phone that would love to write on CAN about exciting new apps, please drop us a line (contact).

  • http://twitter.com/tags07 Gopi Palaniappan

    Last week i released a standalone app in Android market to manage processing scripts from a single app and render them over Webview using processing.js as backend. Here’s the link to the project site: http://code.google.com/p/my-processing/

    Feel free to try ‘em and let me know your feedback.