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About SDL2, Free Pascal and… Android

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Since the rise of SmartPhones, many wonder if Free Pascal/SDL2 development  is possible for them, too. The good news is, yes it is possible! The bad news is, it is kind of toilsome to set up a development environment for Android (one of the two major operating systems of many SmartPhones).

Imants Gulbis informed me that he set up a Lazarus package (LazSDL2Design) which makes development of SDL2 applications with Free Pascal for Android fairly simple and integrates with the Lazarus IDE. Check out the instructions to make Lazarus/SDL2 ready for Android. The LazSDL2Design package relies on an own translation of SDL2 headers (LazSDL2) by him.

I put together some useful resources for Android development in the FAQ.

Thanks to reader Paul for letting me know about an unclear statement in Chapter 8 Part 1.

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Android, SDL2 and Pascal?

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Recently, I get more and more questions and requests regarding the development of Android applications with SDL2 and Free Pascal. Since I’m not planning to do a tutorial chapter on this in the near future, I would like to share some resources which may help you to set your system up. – Contact me, if you are interested in sharing a tutorial on how to set up a SDL2/Free Pascal/Android development environment (or if you know further resources which should be covered here).

  1. This step by step tutorial describes very detailed the setup of a SDL2/Android development environment under Window, though it aims for C++ development rather than Pascal development: 

http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/52_hello_mobile/android_windows/index.php.

  1.  This is a short introduction how to setup your system and Lazarus (Free Pascal) to develop Android Apps:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Android_tutorial.

  1. These links lead you to a Lazarus package that allows for SDL2 and simple Android development and a configuration of it:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazsdl2.
https://sourceforge.net/p/lazsdl2/wiki/LazSDL2Design%20configuration.