[Mobile-sig] Experiments with Dalvik

[David Boddie]

On Tue May 17 14:36:31 EDT 2016, Bill Janssen wrote:

> In case you weren't aware, you can just write Android apps and services
> in Python, using Kivy.  No need to invent another language.

Oh, I know about the CPython solutions on Android, like Kivy and PyQt.
It was interesting for me to consider how to construct applications that
don't rely on native libraries to run, or the Android SDK/NDK to build.
It was interesting to see that projects like Androguard had already done
a lot of this before.

I chose to try and do something with a Python-like language because it's
familiar to me. The modules that the compiler uses are more likely to be
useful to people, especially those doing Jython-like solutions for Android,
though I realise that going via Java bytecode rather than direct to Dalvik
is the preferred route.

David