Curiosity of the Day: DroidScript | March 12th, 2010
Recently, a blog post came forward from Mikael Kindbord about running Rhino on Android. I was then asked to take a look at it,and it was pretty interesting. He recently released a project called DroidScript, which is actually really interesting. It’s an interesting front-end to Rhino, and it has the Javascript using Dalvik Android classes with Javascript so that you can have intents and invoke any method in Javascript that you can in Java. It does produce some pretty verbose code, and while I’m not going to re-structure Android PhoneGap so that it uses this just yet, it’s an interesting thought experiment in how many different ways you can write code for Android.
If you’re interested in Android and Javascript, I high recommend checking it out.
December 2nd, 2010 at 2:08 am
I downloaded the .apk, installed it, launched it, and then got just a black screen. I didn’t have WiFi turned on, realized my mistake, made sure the app was killed, relaunched DroidScritp and still the black screen. I can haz debug output?
January 31st, 2011 at 11:16 am
Does this work with iphone already? I regret it, but I bought the new iphone, wish I did the Android for sure. I should have paid more attention to the mobile analytics between the two before making my purchase. I just didn’t think I could go wrong with the iphone, but I can’t even use Flash on it. Not to mention the dropped calls.