Michel van der List on 22 Nov 2011 12:04:01 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Python on Android


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?

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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!

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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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