[Sean] > I have a G1 myself, a friend has the Tattoo, and I have played with > quite a few heros. For me the physical keyboard is a must, if you are > similar, I would try and find out if the Motorola Droid is coming here > any time soon. The Tattoo is kinda small and dinky, which puts its on > screen keyboard at a disadvange to the Hero, it kinda strikes me as a > hero lite, but still a very nice phone.
Thanks for that Sean. I think I'm going to wait for something like the Motorola Droid to hit the Irish market. > Proper full on python does not really work on Android, but it does have > a scripting environment which supports it. You cant build full polished > apps with it, but handy little tools are easy. I've seen someone use a > combination of the android api + python to turn their android phone into > a barcode scanner which sends the codes via bluetooth to a desktop. Yeah, I read up on the python support for Android. Basically, it's an RPC layer, using JSON, that makes RPC calls against the Java API from cpython. Presumably that's why the GUI support doesn't work in cpython; how to enable RPC calls *into* python from the java side, for handling events, etc. > I dont think python will ever be a first class language on the platform > though, its a very java centric environment. There is a project to get jython running on the Android, but I'm not sure of it's status. I think that without financial support from Google, it's unlikely to progress rapidly. Currently, the only dynamic language that can directly use the Java API on Android is BeanShell: Ugh! http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/FAQ Alan. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" 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/pythonireland?hl=en.
