AdaCore releases GNAT Pro 7.2 for Android

AdaCore has released its latest Ada cross-development environment, GNAT Pro 7.2, for ARM Cortex processors running Android. This GNAT Pro product, hosted on Windows and Linux, comprises a complete Ada toolsuite for developing and maintaining Android applications using a mixture of Ada and Java. Developers can now exploit the software engineering benefits of the Ada language, while also taking advantage of the Java libraries and services provided by the Android platform. Applications can also be written solely in Ada, or in a combination of Ada and other “native” languages. Android 2.3 and later versions are supported, on Cortex A8 and above. A recent trend is the use of COTS portable devices in mission-critical contexts, such as military command and control and industrial process management. In these systems the original OS and consumer-oriented applications are replaced by customized versions that include domain-specific software using proprietary and/or confidential algorithms. GNAT Pro for Android offers developers an attractive solution by generating highly efficient, native ARM code for the algorithms, while giving access to the common Android graphics library for implementing the user interface. And with Ada’s strong typing and other compile-time checks, GNAT Pro and supplemental static analysis tools, such as CodePeer, can detect many errors and vulnerabilities early ...