HAhahainternet·May 8, 2018
https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a has been around in one form or another for a decade or so.
It looks dead in that repository though.
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sl4a
SL4A brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device.
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What it is
SL4A brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device.
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Where it is used
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I learned programming with JRuby SL4A on my smartphone. I can't imagine anyone doing this today. Gingerbread is without a doubt my favorite Android version. You had so much…
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Observed mentions: 2015-03-27 00:23:47 UTC to 2018-05-08 23:48:57 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesScripting Layer 4 Android provides a reasonable facade for a lot of APIs that are available to a ton of languages via a socket. It has out of the box support for perl and python as well as some other languages.
[1] https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a
In T-Mobile will pay a $48M fine for throttling ‘unlimited data’ plansI learned programming with JRuby SL4A on my smartphone. I can't imagine anyone doing this today. Gingerbread is without a doubt my favorite Android version. You had so much freedom back then!
https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a
In A list of all Android permissionsThere's also Scripting Layer for Android: https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a
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