Elixir-Desktop Runtimes

To use elixir-desktop on mobile-phones this projects packages the BEAM Virtual Machine into platform specific binaries. Currently supported are:

• Android arm 64-bit
• Android arm 32-bit
• Android x86 64-bit (for the Android Simulator)
• iOS arm 64-bit (current iPhones)
• iOS arm 64-bit (MacOS M1 Simulator)
• iOS x86_64 (MacOS Intel Simulator)

Building Android Runtimes

Android runtimes depends on docker and the dockercross/* docker-images created for cross-compilation. If docker is installed for your current user then building all the runtimes bundled in a zip file is as easy as:

mix package.android.runtime

After this you should have all runtimes in _build/#{arch}-runtime.zip these then will need to be packaged with your mobile app.

Building iOS Runtimes

For iOS builds are triggered similiary with:

mix package.ios.runtime

After the build succeeds there will be a xcframework directory in _build/liberlang.xcframework. Copy this into your Xcode project and add it to your target.

Android Versions and API-Levels (update Apr. 2024)

Just for reference from https://apilevels.com/, currently we're only supporting ABI >= 23

Culumative usage	Version	API Level
0%	Android 15	(API level 35)
16.30%	Android 14	(API level 34)
42.50%	Android 13	(API level 33)
59.50%	Android 12	(API level 31+32)
75.70%	Android 11	(API level 30)
84.50%	Android 10	(API level 29)
90.20%	Android 9	(API level 28)
92.10%	Android 8.1	(API level 27)
95.10%	Android 8.0	(API level 26)
95.6%	Android 7.1	(API level 25)
97.00%	Android 7.0	(API level 24)
98.40%	Android 6.0	(API level 23)