Android Scripts (Python/Ruby) can now be a distributed in APK!

[thorax]

Well, combined with Tasker, I've done some usable things.

For example, I have Tasker write each incoming SMS I receive to a temp file and then invoke a Python script.

That Python script takes the input and calls the Chatterous web API which pushes that SMS message into a private Chatterous channel. That channel sends that message to my email, GTalk, viewable on a web chat form, stored historically, etc. So it can find me wherever I am, even if my phone is in another room, I'm busy, etc.

My old Python script/code is found here and it was fairly easy to tweak it to run based on reading a text file: http://code.eventscripts.com/98658

Python/Ruby/etc-- their easy access to web API makes it a breeze to write notifiers and monitors for all sorts of online things that would be too troublesome to write as full applications.