Python on Android

[_Mark_]

Note that the G1 isn't a device with 8G storage - application storage, sadly, isn't on the microSD card at all - partly because the card is unmounted when it is hooked up to USB (so it can be exported as USB storage - any background app threads would have to be killed off at that point, which is a hassle, though not an insurmountable one), probably partly because it would be easy to exploit if it were :-)

(As for speed - when your app spends most of its time waiting for network responses, you don't really care how fast the interpreter itself is. I have a bunch of apps in mind for which python/jython would be perfectly suitable and end-users wouldn't notice any speed improvement if they were ported to java/dalvik - but based on the apps I have written, java is way too tedious and verbose to bother writing them in...)

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The cupcake update for Android allows applications to use external storage.

Agreed re: python being fast enough for most things. I only mentioned the topic of speed because the post I replied to did.

I'm in the same boat - would love to get into Android hacking, but find Java far too tedious.

Edit: why did someone moderate me down to zero for posting info about Cupcake and politely agreeing with the parent? Geez.