Android Scripting Environment Both Awesome & Frightening

This announcement from Google…

Introducing Android Scripting Environment

…probably has a lot of people excited about the Android smartphone platform. This scripting environment supports two well-known dynamic languages: Python (one of my personal favorite languages) and Lua. It also supports something I had not heard of before: BeanShell. BeanShell interprets scripts written using the Java language.

So, the good thing about this announcement is that Android now can use powerful scripting languages that can do powerful things with the phone like start apps, access sensor information, scan bar codes, use text-to-speech features, send text messages and make phone calls.

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