Nolan Darilek wrote: > I'm trying to make my app scriptable. Specifically, I need to expose a > few Java APIs and make callbacks settable via user-written scripts. > Ideally I'd like to hide some of the complexity away in a DSL, but > there's no way of accomplishing what I want neatly without some form > of user scripting, so I may accept another alternative if it meets my > requirements. > > Initially I looked into Scala as that is my main language of choice, > but the Scala interpreter is just a wrapper around its compiler, which > I'm told won't run well if at all on the phone. > > I've also tried JRuby, which worked under Cupcake. There appears to be > a regression in the form of a Dalvik bug that prevents it from working > under Donut, however: > > http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4242 > > Has anyone gotten anything working?
Beanshell works if the intepreter source code is recompiled with a modern compiler (the downloads on beanshell.org are built with Java 1.4.2). Rhino should work if you turn off all optimizations it attempts to do. Leastways, I had a version from ~9 months ago working. I would expect any scripting language that does not generate JVM bytecodes to have a decent shot of working on Android, such as Sleep (http://sleep.dashnine.org/) and Jacl (http://tcljava.sourceforge.net/docs/website/index.html). > I've also seen the Android Scripting Environment. Am I correct in > assuming that this only supports running full interpreters and not > embedding scripting languages into apps? I do not believe ASE is designed with your scenario in mind. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in Germany, 18-22 January 2010: http://bignerdranch.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
