Hi Michael,

This is amazingly good timing. I have an immediate, urgent need for Pharo on Android. I understand the graphics might not quite be there, but the potential is enticing. Could I possibly get on a Discord chat and/or Skype with you?

I'm in the middle of a two week hackathon and needing an Android phone to listen to Bluetooth GAP advertisements from a Raspberry Pi transmitting its GPS coordinates, and then drawing a simple graphic showing the relative location of the transmitter and the phone. I've had minor success with...
https://hackaday.io/project/10314-raspberry-pi-3-as-an-eddystone-url-beacon

using Nicolas Bridoux's "Beacon Scanner" on my Android phone.

https://github.com/Bridouille/android-beacon-scanner

What chance do you think a Pharo image has of receiving such events? I'm about six hours old with Android Studio, done the FirstApp tutorial (https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html)

and right now working through the Graphics/Aninamation tute (https://developer.android.com/training/building-graphics.html) but much rather be working in Pharo.

The benefit for the community is I get to promote Pharo to BHP's new formed Technology group. BHP are a fortune 500 company putting on ~2000 people globally to work on Industrial Internet Of Things. There are some really interesting graphs in this video...

https://unearthed.solutions/digital-tribes-perth/

Even if the hackthon is too time constrained to get something working, I hope to be able to follow up with BHP to demonstrate Pharo and seek their support for it.

What timezone are you? I'm GMT+8, but I'm a night owl happy to work around the clock.

cheers -ben

Skype: Ben Coman, Collie, (Western) Australia.