iOS: Calling native methods on iPhone

[Tobi]

Yes I know and I tried it already. But it throws an classCastException when setting the delegate to imagepicker. 

I think the problem could be that I do not use cocoa touch for the UI, I use javafx.



Am 05.07.2013 um 14:03 schrieb Niklas Therning <niklas at therning.org>:

> RoboVM already has bindings for most of the stuff in UIKit, UIImagePickerController included [1]. It's in the robovm-cocoatouch.jar file included in the download. It's mostly untested though. Please go ahead and try it out and let me know how it goes.
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> [1] https://github.com/robovm/robovm/blob/master/cocoatouch/src/main/java/org/robovm/cocoatouch/uikit/UIImagePickerController.java
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> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> thats great! We need such efforts!
>> the goal should be to use the automatically wrapped UIKit from Java, call the image picker and fetch an image from the iphone to show it in JavaFX!
>> 
>> Who is the first guy who posts a demo image ;)?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Tobi
>> 
>> It would be fantastic to have a real use case for using a native cocoa touch function in JavaFX (on RoboVM). I suggest to load an image via ImagePicker from the iPhone image library. So we need to use the UIKit framework and the UIImagePickerController...
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>> Am 05.07.2013 um 11:56 schrieb Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>:
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>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > To not write the bro stuff manually I fired up xtext yesterday and created a small DSL which holds the (relevant) Header-Information and generates the Bro-Files for you.
>> >
>> > You can see the input https://github.com/tomsontom/objcgenerator/tree/master/bundles/at.bestsolution.objc.mapper.cocoatouch/mappings and output https://github.com/tomsontom/objcgenerator/tree/master/bundles/at.bestsolution.objc.mapper.cocoatouch/src/main/java/org/robovm/cocoatouch/corelocation .
>> >
>> > Currently it is bound to Eclipse but I could add support to run the mapper on the command line as well.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
>> > On 04.07.13 18:16, Tom Schindl wrote:
>> >> Robovm does that without jni it is called bro
>> >>
>> >> Tom
>> >>
>> >> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>> >>
>> >> Am 04.07.2013 um 17:44 schrieb Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com>:
>> >>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> after successfully using JavaFX (including font and CSS) on iOS I tried to call native code on iPhone. I successfully fetched and visualized the battery level of the iPhone!
>> >>>
>> >>> To do this I wrote objective c code and bind it to Java via JNI. No problem so far.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> But what I would like to do is using a technology like JNA to directly access Cocoa frameworks without writing native JNI code. Does anybody knows if JNA (or something else) could also be used in RoboVM?
>> >>>
>> >>> Best regards,
>> >>> Tobi
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >
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