Tag: mobile

SL4A – scripting layer for Android

SL4A – scripting layer for Android

Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to get things done.

Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, in the background, or via Locale. Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell are currently supported, and we’re planning to add more.

Adobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released

Adobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released

We’re excited to announce the following major new features in PhoneGap 2.0:

  • Cordova WebView – This allows for the integration of PhoneGap, as a view fragment, into a bigger native application.
  • Command Line Tooling (CLI) (Android, iOS and BlackBerry) – CLI tooling brings a standard nomenclature to common tasks across platforms such as project creation, debugging, and emulation. Normally, these are different incantations for each platform vendor making cross platform development workflow inconsistent and jarring; we’ve fixed that.
  • Enhanced documentation – Getting-started guides, plugins, migration guides and more to help accelerate the development of mobile applications and make it even easier.
  • Web Inspector Remote (Weinre) ported to nodejs – The availability of a node module means easy installation using Node Package Manager (NPM).
  • Cordovajs (Support for unified Javascript across platforms) – We’ve seen dramatic advancements to performance, security, and API symmetry across platforms thanks to the herculean effort of unifying our JS layer.
  • Transition to Apache Cordova and nearing graduation from incubation
  • Windows Phone support
  • Improvement to iOS app creation – We’ve implemented significant changes for the iOS platform. Get a deeper dive into all the changes from Shaz, our PhoneGap iOS lead developer.

My Galaxy Nexus now runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. …

My Galaxy Nexus now runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.  All had to do was go to Settings, About phone, Updates.  The update was there.  It was automatically downloaded and installed.  No problem what so ever.  The phone does seem to work faster afterwords.  The new Google Now service looks interesting, but I need to use it more to see if it actually works for Cyprus.  If you are interested in features and reviews, have a look this Engadget post.

The Most Important Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of

The Most Important Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of

Information about every cell phone in the country is in a Neustar database. Which is why it’s kind of weird that 400 or so companies trust them to deal with law enforcement surveillance requests.