<div dir="ltr">Hi Barry,<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Barry Brevik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry@manicreader.com" target="_blank">barry@manicreader.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I don’t know about the Android Virtual Device thingy.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Of course I’m planning to write a Perl app for my phone, heh heh.
I think I’ll start with an app that will determine if my servers are up and
running. I can’t use ping because the servers ignore it, and all of the low
numbered ports are shut off. ~~Barry Brevik</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div> <br></div><div> I installed, way back, a coupla things on my LG Intuition phone (which I haven't yet rooted), that I still haven't found out how to use or do anything useful with. One shows up as "PerlAPK" and the other as "SL4A".<br>
<br> I've found lots of online stuff about the latter, a google code project that's now hosted at: <br><br> <a href="https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a">https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a</a> <br><br>
where there's a README.md if you scroll to the bottom, after the files list.<br><br></div><div> For the former, all I know is at:<br><br> <a href="https://code.google.com/p/perl-android-apk/downloads/detail?name=PerlAPK.apk">https://code.google.com/p/perl-android-apk/downloads/detail?name=PerlAPK.apk</a><br>
<br></div><div>where it says "This is just an example script, which can be replaced with your own scripts (see the Wiki for more details)" and there's a "Wiki" link at the top of the page, which goes to:<br>
<br> <a href="https://code.google.com/p/perl-android-apk/w/list">https://code.google.com/p/perl-android-apk/w/list</a><br><br></div><div>so maybe something there would help. So far, with the limited time I've invested exploring, I haven't gotten to where I can write Perl to execute on my phone, nor stuff like installing CPAN modules. (I like using PDL a lot, for instance, which isn't a trivial download.)<br>
<br></div><div> I sure can think of lots of stuff I'd like to do on Android, in Perl, once I get a bit further.<br><br></div><div> A key intention I had in playing with my BeagleBone Black has been to install Android on it, use it with a 2 Tb USB disk, keyboard, mouse, display and Wifi dongle to enable developing Android mobile apps in Android instead of having to cross-compile from another environment. I've got everything together for that except getting an Android ISO to boot and my Wifi dongle to reliably work across reboots (in Angstrom).<br>
<br></div><div> There's enough stuff not working to qualify as fun for any died-in-the-wool techie.<br></div><div><br><br></div><div> regards, -- John Kirk (267) 882-7777<br></div><div><br></div>
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