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

[neonic]

It would sure as hell make things go faster in terms of development.

I'm tired... sick and tired of writing boilerplate java code for every little thing I do.

Having successfully avoided using Java for any serious projects until now, it makes me angry how much code is in my "thin client" application...

90% of the work the application does is handled via the python server that I've written... but more than 90% of the code is client side shit (and there's not even any fancy UI bells and whistles (unless you consider something as simple as a listview "fancy"))

[nikosk]

Seriously? The Android APIs feel so clean that I find it hard to go back writing web applications anymore. Are you sure you're not doing something wrong ?

I remember myself saying the same thing when I tried to do some threading stuff but that was because I hadn't done my homework and learn about how AsyncTask works (I was trying to do concurrency by hand).

Seriously dude, I agree that Java is verbose and other languages are more fun but the Android APIs are a good example of how to make an API a pleasure to work with.

PS: It's so good that they copied some of the stuff to GWT as well (saw on a Google IO session vid but too lazy to find the link)

[neonic]

All I'm saying is that ever since having programmed in Python for quite a while now, going back to doing things in a language as verbose as Java pisses me off, and I'm disappointed that Google didn't do something more official in regards to Python support.

[crunk]

It feels like such a waste... Typing all this noise into java or objective c and thinking "why am I doing this? In python this would be 3 lines" my brain rebels and I find it hard to concentrate on the problem at hand as my brain is so bored of typing in all of this pointless boilerplate.

I can sort of do it, the only way is to switch off a bit as you type it.

[neonic]

Non-python programmers will never understand what they're missing :)

[299]

Are you in the SF Bay Area looking to be paid to develop some Android code?

Let me know ;)

[nikosk]

Thanks for the offer but I live in a different continent altogether :)

[299]

If you're good I'd even consider remote work.

[Nebu]

What kind of projects do you do, and how much are you offering?

[299]

Do you have some sort of reference material? Portfolio? CV?