Re: LuaJIT for Android

  • From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:49:05 +0200

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The LuaJIT FFI can't call into Java code, no. Something like LuaJava
> is required to translate/abstract all the Javaisms.

Exactly.  However, thereafter it gets easier since LJ uses reflection
to call Java code, so practically all the API is available without
further bindings.

More relevant to LuaJIT would be writing applications entirely at the
C level, where ffi would be useful & needed:

http://mobilepearls.com/labs/native-android-api/

stece d.

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