Re: [PLUG] Python on Android

[Michel van der List <plug@vanderlist.com>]

The wikipedia article is pretty good.

Basically, for android they translate the jvm bytecode to dalvik code, 
which gives you all the normal tools, compilers, etc. but you can than 
simply target the android phone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software) 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_%28software%29>

Michel

On 11/22/2011 02:58 PM, Fred Stluka wrote:
> Michel,
>
> Close enough, or significant differences?
>
> --Fred
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> On 11/22/11 2:40 PM, Michel van der List wrote:
> > Keep in mind that android does not run the java jvm, it runs dalvik.
> >
> > Michel
> >
> > On 11/22/2011 01:40 PM, Fred Stluka wrote:
> > > Eric,
> > >
> > > Interesting.  So, yeah, it did require a mapping layer to give Python
> > > access to the Java APIs.  Says that "Scripting Layer for Android 
> > > (SL4A)"
> > > supports not only Python, but also Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell,
> > > JavaScript and Tcl.
> > >
> > > I'm surprised about JRuby.  That's an implementation of Ruby that
> > > runs on the Java JVM with the JRuby compiler generating standard
> > > JVM byte codes, right?  So it should be able to call the Java APIs
> > > directly, with no need for SL4A.  Maybe I'm missing something...
> > >
> > > Good article.  Thanks!
> > >
> > > --Fred
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> > >
> > > On 11/22/11 1:05 PM, Eric H. Johnson wrote:
> > > > Related to "Developing Portable Mobile Web Applications" another thing
> > > > mentioned last night at PLUG west was writing Python apps for 
> > > > Android. Here
> > > > is a detailed article on how to write Python applications for Android:
> > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10940
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Eric
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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