It depends on what you want to do. Scripting Layer for Android is about letting scripting languages access Android APIs and services. In that case, you need som

It depends on what you want to do. Scripting Layer for Android is about letting scripting languages access Android APIs and services. In that case, you need some sort of container / runtime to talk to the rest of the Android/Dalvik world, but there's nothing that prevents you from getting at the bare metal, if that's what you want to do.