I want to write an SDK for Android and iOS where the core will be written once in a programming language that can be then wrapped by Swift and Kotlin. I know I can do it in C, and I think it’s possible to do it in Rust, but wondering if Elixir desktop can do it? [image] GitHub - elix…

Ping to @dominicletz (the author). For example the Mozilla foundation uses UniFFI to help with the generation of the bindings to include Rust in their SDKs for Android, iOS and others: UniFFI is a tool that automatically generates foreign-language bindings targeting Rust libraries. It fits in t…

It’s definitely possible, whether it’s advisable in your case I don’t know. You will have to ship the iOS and Android runtimes with your SDK and adjust the Bridge.swift / Bridge.kotlin files to expose your API. You would not in fact be using the Elixir-desktop library but just the runtimes and your…

To add to that this is the Elixir-desktop bridge library bridge/lib/bridge.ex at main · elixir-desktop/bridge · GitHub It’s a simple socket server using JSON for data exchange between native and Elixir. This one is specific to Elixir-desktop and mocks the wxWidgets APIs that are not existing on iOS…

[image] dominicletz: It’s definitely possible, whether it’s advisable in your case I don’t know. You will have to ship the iOS and Android runtimes with your SDK and adjust the Bridge.swift / Bridge.kotlin files to expose your API. My use case is to build an SDK that will be used to talk with…

[image] Exadra37: To be clear I will not need to do UI stuff. If you are not going to do any UI stuff in elixir, then you can just make a headless binary that is controlled by stdin/stdout from the outside. The binary can be distributed inside your mobile app.

[image] derek-zhou: hen you can just make a headless binary that is controlled by stdin/stdout from the outside. You mean I can write the code in Elixir and compile it to native Android and iOS? Being controlled from the outside, means to maintain complexity in both Swift and Kotlin wrappers…

[image] Exadra37: You mean I can write the code in Elixir and compile it to native Android and iOS? This is not something I have done either. But to use elixir in any way on the mobile platform, binary generation must be a prerequisite? [image] Exadra37: Being controlled from the outside…

[image] derek-zhou: [image] Exadra37: ou mean I can write the code in Elixir and compile it to native Android and iOS? This is not something I have done either. But to use elixir in any way on the mobile platform, binary generation must be a prerequisite? I think so. [image] derek-…

[image] Exadra37: Wouldn’t be the use of Android and iOS FFI a better option? Maybe; however, then you need to link them together; which can be tricky. Whereas with port, it would be quite mechanic to implement and easier to test. True, you pay the cost of serialization and head of line block…

This option is tricky but possible on Android, but it’s impossible on iOS. There is no such thing as stdin/stdout communication on iOS. You can’t in fact ship more than one executable. Everything has to be one big statically linked object file. You can checkout the port of the beam, but in short the…