Am Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:12:48 -0400
schrieb Mark Murphy <[email protected]>:

> 
> Roy M wrote:
> > Are there any planned to support scripting language such as python,
> > perl or even php for Android apps development?
> 
> There is work to port Jython to Android. Note that until it can
> generate Dalvik bytecode, it will be rather slow, and as such is
> probably best used as an extension language rather than writing
> entire applications in Jython.

Jythonroid does generate Dalvik bytecode, albeit the ugly way by
generating standard JVM bytecode first and then translating it to
Dalvik.

The biggest issues are:

1.) I was not able to compile trunk jythonroid; I didn't try to hard.
2.) It's based on the old Jython 2.2 version (probably), not on the
newer Jython 2.5 release candidates.
3.) For writing complete applications, there are some issues, because
Android expects classes with fixed names for your Activities and other
classes.

> 
> I am not aware of an existing Perl-on-JVM or PHP-on-JVM that could be
> used as the basis for a similar port.

JRuby (http://en.wordpress.com/tag/jruby-android/) might be a better
choice for the moment.

Andreas

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