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Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?
Date 2012-02-16 17:50 +0000
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On 2012-02-16, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2012-02-16, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You claimed Jython is or will be available on Android. It's not and
>> Jython isn't being ported to Dalvik and it has nothing to do with
>> patents.  Android might use java a language, but the virtual machines
>> are very different.  And no expired patents are going to change that
>> fact.  Android simply isn't going to run the JVM anytime soon.
>
> I got curious about Dalvik, and was looking at the Wikipedia page,
> where it says that programs for Android are compiled into bytecode in
> JVM compatible .class files.  Those files are then converted into
> .dex files to run on Davlik.
>
> I don't know much at all about Jython, but if it generates JVM byte
> code, mightn't the same conversion to .dex be applicable?

Apparently there was a project to do just that:

  http://code.google.com/p/jythonroid/

But it's been abandonded in favor of SL4A, which offers a 
PythonForAndroid_r4.apk download.  There's a book about Python on
Android via SL4A called _Pro_Android_Python_with_SL4A_.

  http://www.apress.com/9781430235699

Interesting...
  
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[semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 20:58 +0000
  Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-02-15 23:17 +0000
  Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-02-15 15:36 -0800
  Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 18:19 -0800
    Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-15 18:38 -0800
    Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-15 18:38 -0800
      Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 20:26 -0700
        Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-16 06:53 -0800
        Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-16 06:53 -0800
          Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 08:22 -0700
            Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-16 17:38 +0000
              Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-02-16 17:50 +0000
              Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 18:45 -0700
            Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-16 21:25 -0800
              Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 18:51 -0700
                Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-17 20:51 -0800
                Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 23:05 -0600
                Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-17 20:51 -0800
                Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2012-02-19 00:45 +0100
              Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 04:46 +1100
              Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-02-18 17:36 -0700
                Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-18 21:58 -0800
                Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-18 21:58 -0800
              Re: [OT]: Smartphones and Python? Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-02-20 12:53 +0100
            Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-16 21:25 -0800
            Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python? Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2012-02-19 00:41 +0100

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