Android Scripting Environment Adds More Power to Google Phone

Jun 12, 2009, 21:31 (0 Talkback[s])

"ASE is really very useful since you can write and test your scripts on your Google phone (for example) without having the need to use or to connect to your computer. Scripts can run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Currently, supported languages are Python, Lua and BeanShell. Support for Ruby and JavaScript is already planned.

"The scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to:"

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