Add an Android app

[fwcd]

A long-term goal would be to have an Android app too that integrates the DistributedChat package with a platform-specific UI. There are a few challenges with this approach, however:

• Building the Swift compiler for Android is possible, but non-trivial (official docs are here)
• Integrating the ChatController may require wrapping it into C-compatible structures for interfacing with the JVM world (Java, Kotlin, ...)
  • This requires using the Android NDK and JNI

A UI could be written using a high-level framework for Kotlin, e.g. Jetpack Compose which is similar to SwiftUI.

[dimme]

I was just thinking; What if a distributed BLE chat app existed? Then I searched the Internet, and it took me here. I had it running on my iPad in a couple of minutes.

I hope this gets more widely adopted and an Android client eventually is worked on. I would love to help you but I should study some Swift first. I wonder if a native Java DistrubutedChat package would be easier to implement, preferably compatible with the Swift version.