Scala on Your Phone

Scala on Your Phone: Making Mobile Development Suck Less Michael Galpin, eBay @michaelg

Example: Event Handlers

Just a Click

iPhone

Android

Objective-C

@synthesize textInput; @synthesize label; @synthesize name; - (IBAction)changeGreeting:(id)sender { self.name = textInput.text; NSString *nameString = name; if([nameString length] == 0) { nameString = @"Code Camp"; } NSString *greeting = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"Hello %@!", nameString]; label.text = greeting; [greeting release]; } - (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)theTextField { if(theTextField == textInput) { [textInput resignFirstResponder]; } return YES; } - (void)dealloc { [textInput release]; [label release]; [name release]; [super dealloc]; }

@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); Button sayButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.say_button); sayButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){ public void onClick(View v) { EditText nameBox = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.name); String name = nameBox.getText().toString(); TextView greeting = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.greeting); greeting.setText("Hello " + name); } }); }

override def onCreate(savedInstanceState:Bundle){ import R.id._ super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) setContentView(R.layout.main) val sayButton = findViewById(say_button).asInstanceOf[Button] sayButton.setOnClickListener( () => { val user = findViewById(name).asInstanceOf[EditText].text findViewById(greeting).asInstanceOf[TextView].text = "Hello " + user }) }

Advantages

Closures • Strongly typed handlers • Forget one-method interfaces • Lexical scoping

Closures • Strongly typed handlers • Forget one-method interfaces • Lexical scoping val computedValue = parseInt(findViewById(foo).asInstanceOf[EditText].text) this.post( () => { val url = new URL("http://foo.com?qs=" + computedValue) Source.fromStream(url.openStream).getLines.foreach(findViewById(results).text += _) }) mainMenu.onClick = (item:MenuItem) => { startActivity(item.activity) }

Getters, Setters, Updates mapImage.alpha = if (topLevelGroup.searchButton.clickable) BLENDED else OPAQUE allTiles(selectedTileIndex) = throbberImageView

Operators resultsLabelView += "Read more..." keywordInput -= eventListener mainMenu ++ fileMenuItems

Traits class SearchDetailsActivity extends Activty with JsonParser, Trackable

XML val results = for (suggested <- responseXml"Suggested"){ yield Term(sugested"Term" text, suggested"Priority" text) } nextNode match { case <code>{txt}</code> => this.status = parseInt(txt) case <state>{txt}</state> => this.state = txt case _ => }

Trade Secrets

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Implicits object Activity{ implicit def funcToClicker1(f:_root_.android.view.View => Unit):OnClickListener = new OnClickListener(){ def onClick(v:_root_.android.view.View)=f.apply(v)} implicit def funcToClicker0(f:() => Unit):OnClickListener = new OnClickListener() { def onClick(v:_root_.android.view.View)=f.apply} implicit def funcToLongClicker0(f:() => Boolean):OnLongClickListener = new OnLongClickListener() { def onLongClick(v:_root_.android.view.View) = f.apply} implicit def funcToLongClicker1(f:_root_.android.view.View => Boolean):OnLongClickListener = new OnLongClickListener() { def onLongClick(v:_root_.android.view.View) = f.apply(v)} implicit def viewToRichView(v:_root_.android.view.View):scala.android.view.View = new scala.android.view.View(v) implicit def richViewToView(view:scala.android.view.View):_root_.android.view.View = view.base }

Bag o’ Tricks class ViewGroup(base:_root_.android.view.ViewGroup) extends View(base){ object views{ def +=(v:_root_.android.view.View){ base.addView(v) } def apply(index:Int) = new { def update(v:_root_.android.view.View) = base.addView(index,v) } } ... }

Bag o’ Tricks class ViewGroup(base:_root_.android.view.ViewGroup) extends View(base){ object views{ def +=(v:_root_.android.view.View){ base.addView(v) } def apply(index:Int) = new { def update(v:_root_.android.view.View) = base.addView(index,v) } } ... } myGroup.views += someOtherView myGroup.views(3) = yetAnotherView

Scala on Android • More Correct • More Concise • Simpler • Perfect Fit

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Scala on Your Phone

by Michael Galpin on Oct 03, 2009

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