How can I create lightweight and cross-platform C++ GUI app with same code for windows (.exe) and android (.apk)?

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I want to write code in CLion or maybe Visual Studio IDE, but I found no ready solutions for such cross-platform development. My app needs only basic GUI things (buttons, text areas, alert dialogs etc.) as well as working with files and http requests, and should consume as little CPU & memory as possible. Is there a way to write same code and then use it, maybe directly in win32 api (for Windows) and Android NDK (for Android)? Or is there any lightweight framework that has ready solution?

P.S. Rad Studio has something, that is similar to what I need https://www.embarcadero.com/ru/products/rad-studio but its default app uses a lot of memory and includes a lot of libraries I don't need (Maybe there is some way to fix this?).

PLEASE provide me with detailed steps to creating and compiling such project, maybe some examples and docs too

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Rad Studio (consumes much memory, a lot of unnecessary libraries in default project)

Posted 15-Sep-20 5:39am

Sergiy P

Updated 15-Sep-20 6:37am

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Rick York 15-Sep-20 11:46am

You might want to consider Qt.

Sergiy P 15-Sep-20 11:59am

Thank you for your answer!
Can I build .exe and .apk from one code in Qt? Or do I need two parts of project (Wnidows and Android) anyways?
I see example for android https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-build-example-application.html
Do you know any cross-platform example or docs?

[no name] 15-Sep-20 12:36pm

The search for the "perfect" example. If there were any, everyone would be using them and they would be known as a "pattern". They don't exist; except when you build them yourself ... from the other (imperfect) examples out there.

Richard MacCutchan 15-Sep-20 12:39pm

You can do it with C# and Xamarin. See also win32 android - Google Search[^].

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