Android PHP option planned for Javaphobes

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/15/php_android/

by yanw • 16 years ago

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sprout2• 16 years ago

Along with every other scripting language. Not news until someone has working apps running on most phones. Until then it's a toy. ASE isn't even available in the market yet. How is distribution going to work for that? I don't think .apks support dependencies, so at this point you'll practically have to ship your own version of the runtime with the app.

evilmushroom2• 16 years ago

err APKs can reference other library APKs

sprout2• 16 years ago

But they can't pull in library APKs on install like in a fully functional package manager.

openfly• 16 years ago

Why can't they just let us us a gcc toolchain and be done with it.

andybak• 16 years ago

How's this? http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html

Scriptor• 16 years ago

Is that for writing entire applications in C or C++ or just parts of them?

keyle2• 16 years ago

I'd love .NET... Not that I love msft but it's a language that's got it together to build some serious apps. Not saying bad things about Java, but I'm not personally a fan.

keyle2• 16 years ago

My bad - it seems Mono is already supported for Android http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214615/will-google-androi...

rbanffy• 16 years ago

A Javaphobe is, most probably, a C#phobe. It's worth to see how it does work out and how popular .NET on Android becomes.

It's not like Google will try to prevent you from writing apps in any language you see fit. The goal of Android is to fragment the marketplace to prevent Apple from becoming a monopoly.

Kilimanjaro3• 16 years ago

I'd rather use JS on V8 to develop for android. Not necessarily nodejs but an in-house brew made by google, optimized for android and tailored to web hobbyists.

citizenparker• 16 years ago

A thousand times yes to this comment. I have had a great deal of fun playing with the V8 engine, and it would beyond cool to write code for the Android using it. Android Chrome already has it integrated, so it should definitely be feasible.

Tichy2• 16 years ago

My prototype of a pure JavaScript chinese checkers runs fine on my Nexus One http://halma.artifia.com

I created a small wrapper for it, similar to PhoneGap, to be able to put it in the Marketplace, too (not yet published, for lack of visual polish).

evilmushroom2• 16 years ago

lol this makes me facepalm. The Android SDK is super easy to use with Java. It's not like some of the major Java frameworks.... buuut whatever floats people's boats. At least this is perfectly fine to do with Android. good luck getting PHP iPhone apps approved. :P

atomical• 16 years ago

I was expecting app engine support for PHP before this.

j_baker• 16 years ago

Erm... this is great. But what if I'm a PHPophobe and a Javaphobe?

nir• 16 years ago

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

c00p3r• 16 years ago

What is the goal of using something like php-cli without popular modules (blah-blah.so) as device-scripting language?

Android PHP option planned for Javaphobes

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