JRuby supports Android out of the box and there's a demo "IRB" (interactive ruby) app called "Ruboto IRB" in the marketplace today. It's incredibly fun to interactively script your phone :)
JRuby's particular advantages over most other popular JVM languages on Android: because we have an interpreter, you can generate new code on the device. It doesn't run super fast, but it makes it possible to combine a mostly-static application with some really dynamic behavior. It is for this reason we are included as part of the Android Scripting Extensions. We also have a Ruby Summer of Code student this summer that will be working on JRuby for Android, including tooling, APIs, and so on. For more information, there's the Ruboto google group: http://groups.google.com/group/ruboto Lots of fun JRuby on Android stuff coming this summer :) - Charlie On May 25, 7:48 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm going to speak about Android next thu at JUG Lugano - I'd like to > have a list of known languages other-than-Java that are known to be > used for developing Android applications. I suppose the whole bunch of > languages on top of the Java VM can be used, but I'd like to have a > list of real ones. Having some reference to open source projects would > be great. Thanks. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkv7xzoACgkQeDweFqgUGxf9/QCghHbb1P/VcuQ6aPUjgbw6DDxX > XzUAn2RVZDRduSBxNAFFcp2EzH4db5bt > =QXRf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
