Perl on a smartphone?

[Peter Edwards]

>
> >>>>> "gvim" == gvim  <gvimrc at gmail.com> writes:
>
> gvim> Anyone running Perl on a smartphone? Android must be close by now
> gvim> but I haven't ventured into this market yet. Would like bash 4
> gvim> too. Make that Perl + bash + vim and I'm happy to pay.
>
> Check out http://www.slideshare.net/xSawyer/when-perl

<http://www.slideshare.net/xSawyer/when-perl>SL4A is what you want
http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
It supports Lua <http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Lua>,
BeanShell <http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:BeanShell>,
Python<http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Python>
, Perl <http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Perl>,
JRuby<http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:JRuby>
, Tcl <http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Tcl>,
JavaScript<http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:JavaScript>
, Ruby <http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Ruby>,
Shell<http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Shell>
. <http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/>
Works well and you can knock up apps easily in Perl.
It runs through an HTTP request-response model to get around Android's
security.
(i.e. don't write commercial software with this.)

If you're serious about Smartphone apps, look at Titanium Appcelerator or
PhoneGap. My team has had success for an iPhone/Android crossover app
written in HTML + JavaScript using the latter.

Regards, Peter
http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk