Just a quick follow-up to this article - the Android Scripting Environment has hit 0.10-2-alpha, bringing several notable enhancements. Most importantly, supported language interpreters can be selectively downloaded and installed. This modification significantly reduces the installation footprint. However, due to technical and security issues, the interpreter(s) and their respective libraries still need to be installed in the device's local storage /data/data/com.google.ase/... path. However, scripts themselves are now stored on the SD card, located at /sdcard/ase/scripts. The two main benefits of this change are 1) significantly easier script file access for host computer editing, and 2) custom scripts are no longer deleted when the ASE is removed or upgraded.
While not yet available in this release, plans are afoot to include interpreters for Javascript, Perl, Ruby and perhaps even PHP, making Android fans of those languages a happy bunch as well. With these improvements, ASE is well on its way to becoming *the* RAD development environment for Android tinkerers.
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While not yet available in this release, plans are afoot to include interpreters for Javascript, Perl, Ruby and perhaps even PHP, making Android fans of those languages a happy bunch as well. With these improvements, ASE is well on its way to becoming *the* RAD development environment for Android tinkerers.