On 2012-02-16, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2012-02-16, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You claimed Jython is or will be available on Android. It's not and >> Jython isn't being ported to Dalvik and it has nothing to do with >> patents. Android might use java a language, but the virtual machines >> are very different. And no expired patents are going to change that >> fact. Android simply isn't going to run the JVM anytime soon. > > I got curious about Dalvik, and was looking at the Wikipedia page, > where it says that programs for Android are compiled into bytecode in > JVM compatible .class files. Those files are then converted into > .dex files to run on Davlik. > > I don't know much at all about Jython, but if it generates JVM byte > code, mightn't the same conversion to .dex be applicable?
Apparently there was a project to do just that: http://code.google.com/p/jythonroid/ But it's been abandonded in favor of SL4A, which offers a PythonForAndroid_r4.apk download. There's a book about Python on Android via SL4A called _Pro_Android_Python_with_SL4A_. http://www.apress.com/9781430235699 Interesting... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! World War III? at No thanks! gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
