There wont be much cons. I havn't tested tho. I tested cherrypy and works well , going to test Web2py with Nik's patch on my android tab. With web2py it will open alot of possiblities to android. Thats cool!.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Massimo Di Pierro < [email protected]> wrote: > Nice. perhaps we could by-pass shelve and provide out own > implementation based on sqlite. Actually I have this coded already... > pros, cons? > > On Jan 15, 4:28 am, Nik Klever <[email protected]> wrote: > > web2py runs on Android - I've tested it with my Motorola Defy. The only > > problems, I discovered until now concerns the cache: > > > > 1. gluon/cache.py uses the python standard library shelve. And shelve on > > Android uses dumbdbm instead of anydbm as normally on unix systems, this > > leads to problems in creating new database files for caching - in web2py > > therefor in creating applications. I solved this with a short workaround > > of cache.py (see attachment) and a default cache-archive (see > > attachment). This is still a workaround, because this problem should be > > solved by shelve in the standard library and not by web2py ! > > > > The attachments can be found on my server: > http://klever.hs-augsburg.de/Veranstaltungen/page/informationen#web2p... > > > > 2. additionally cache problems on Android is caused by the disk cache > > functionality - I haven't looked into this problem in detail, because > > web2py works also without disk caching and the normal use-case for > > web2py on Android is for single-users - it does not makes any sense to > > use it as a server for more than one user ! > > > > Greetings, > > Nik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I did not try but I think yes because it does not use any additional > > > libraries. > > > > > On Jan 14, 6:50 am, Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I cant wait to run Web2py on my android 8 inches and 10 inches > tablets and > > > > develop inside there. > > > > But i see this tutorial : Cherrypy on Android! > > > > > > Can we hack rocket to run on android and then we should be able to > run > > > > web2py on there! > http://www.defuze.org/archives/228-running-cherrypy-on-android-with-s... > > > > > > Anyone up for that? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Phyo. > > > > -- > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Prof. Dr. Nik Klever > > - Studiendekan - > > ______________________________________________ > > Hochschule Augsburg - Fakultät für Informatikhttp:// > www.hs-augsburg.de/informatik/ > > mailto:[email protected] > > ______________________________________________
