libpd has reached a 0.1 release, enabling developers to use Pd as a sound engine in their applications. Out of the gate, we have extensive code samples for Android 1.5 and later, plus the basic tools to work on iOS (recent armv7 recommended for now, with other devices soon). In the near future, embedding Pd patches inside tools like Processing/Java, OpenFrameworks/C++, and Python should be just as easy. The library is based on Pd vanilla, so this is not a fork of Pd; you can use patches in it just as you would in any other version.

Developers will find the library, code snippets (for Android; iOS is coming), and even some handy abstractions:
http://gitorious.org/pdlib/

To learn more:
Article on the release at createdigitalmusic:
http://bit.ly/libpdishere

Group for discussing Pd on mobile, embedded, and using libpd:
http://noisepages.com/groups/pd-everywhere/

End users with Android phones or tablets can try out packages now:
http://gitorious.org/pdlib/pages/Packages
... in addition to patches from Chris detailed in the CDM post above.

libpd available is thanks to the work of Peter Brinkmann, with testing, further development, documentation, and other contributions from the RjDj team (who are now adopting it in their future development work), Hans-Christoph Steiner, Chris McCormick (who has also added the ability to make HTML5 web interfaces), and Peter Kirn, along with members of the NYC Patching Circle at NYC Resistor.

I don't like how people can't see how usefull this software it takes a lot of drain power to use I use pd in my work one day I was showing off my work to my friend and I was exlaning how my it all works and all he could show me was his lame fx on his iPad and he said some think like there is no new effects out there or no one will like your ideas. I say new type of effect will be invented as long as there in math involved. As a developer i would not I could not sale some one junk
People are to commercialized and just look a GUI/skin to much and say to them self... I need that how much $.
yes it would nice to have pd to look better with good GUIs I am all for it ! but focus on how you can make pd better and answer some of the peoples request

I think it would be great if Pd supported plugins well, but I'm not the person to do it. Think of it from my perspective: I don't get paid to work on Pd, I use it in my own work and I work on it for fun. I don't use or know VST, etc. plugins, and Pd can do everything that the plugins can. So why would I spend lots of time learning all that plugin stuff? I'd rather see it done in Pd, personally.

The best implementation is going to come from someone who knows the area well and wants to use it themselves. Scratch their own itch.

Pd can do everything that the plugins can do I am using pd more because it is more creative I like it because its hard ,experimental, more creative I am learning how to use it I real wish I had some thing like this when I first started to make music (i did not know about it ) I real don't have the need buy vst its pointless unless its software like Rx Repair/ audio restoration software
now that I have pd and some knowledge of DSP it real pointed out all of the junk vst out there when you can make some thing like in pd way better and pass normal and pass freak and uncommon . I wont to leave people breathless when I do a live show I won't them to scratch there on heads and say how did he do that? he dose not sound like any other artist. what's his secret?

So if I want to try making some Android applications from my Pd patches using libpd, and I know nothing about non-graphical programming environments beyond about 3 lines of GW-BASIC from circa 1992, what's the best way to go about doing it? I.e., which aspects of which languages do I need to learn, and what are the most appropriate resources for learning them?

Hi ichabod,

you might want to try this first

http://mccormick.cx/projects/PdDroidParty/

Then I know there are nice stuff going on to link libpd to processing, so processing might be a good choice (that's the choice I've done)

There are already a few tuto to developp stuff with processing and libpd :
http://gitorious.org/pdlib/pages/PureDataP5
and
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1I5GitcgVZsJ_48EXASHbXwdScNwSWixMuzOPdh-swKY&pli=1

it has been posted out somewhere on the Pd-everywhere forum at noispages.com so there might be an updated version there. Anyway you'll find more info out there too

Have fun !

Awesome, thanks!

Will give it a try indeed of eclipse which was so hard to use

What kind of video do you want ?

one for setting up eclipse, android SDK and libpd on your machine ? because that would be long, and btw what is your OS ?

whereas developping patches for the sceneplayer and the droidparty is pretty straightforward. You developp a patch with pd vanilla, name it properly (e.g. for sceneplayer in folder which name finishes by ".rj", the patch should be called _main.pd / and for droidparty : any folder, patch should be called droidparty_main.pd) then you copy it to your SD card (USB cable, or Wifi sharing), fire up the app in question and add the patches. That's all !

Hi Shawn,

I don't have time to make a video right now, but I've written detailed steps on how to do that.

here it is : http://puredata.hurleur.com/viewtopic.php?pid=26237#p26237

have fun!