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Introducing "Python for Android"
- maciej 15y agoHow is it different from ASE (http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/)?
- th0ma5 15y agoit looks like this is (going to be) for making self-contained android applications, packaged, and distributed through the market (possibly?). ASE as it stands requires ASE for your code to run, plus it has to download the Python interpreter separately. This project (a part of a multitouch multimedia framework project) is aiming to do this all a bit different and it seems embed the entire interpreter. i'll be excited for it!
- MaggieL 15y agoASE (is now SL4A) has a Python interpreter module, but also has support for other languages like Beanshell, Lua, perl and Javascript. This project may be a tighter integration. Choice is good.
- shadowmint 15y agoASE is a basically a scripting environment to automate tasks using python (or LUA, etc.) by running scripts. You can write scripts and then launch them using the ASE. This fails in a few ways, but the big ones are: - You need the ASE installed to run your scripts. - You can't make an 'app' with it, because there's no ui. This lets you build a stand alone .apk using python including a user interface (well, opengl surface anyway); very, very neat.
- y4m4 15y agoSo awesome! thank you :-)
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- tworats 15y agoVery interesting. I wonder if it allows interaction with existing Android libraries / capabilities (eg. for building UIs) or if it's separate. Also, would be great if there was a sample app to download and try so one can get a sense of what the final product looks / feels like.
- mjcohenw 15y agoI was hoping that this was a version of Python that could run on Android (like awk can).
- jorgecastillo 15y agohttp://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
- robolaz 15y agoDoes this run on all versions of Android?
- jorgecastillo 15y agoIf you like ruby there is a similar project for JRuby and I believe you can access the whole Android API: http://ruboto.org/ http://ruboto.org/
- shreeshga 15y agoI am curious to how fast/slow python interpreted apps will be on mobile. On the desktop at-least, Java code runs much faster than python code.