Re^2: Perl on Android

I had a look at those projects but they are either running under Ubuntu under Android (which will be rather slow I guess?) or it is about cross-compiling Perl scripts to Android and then run them on the tablet as an applet.

My idea was to have a Perl applet and then run scripts written on the tablet against that Perl applet.

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Re^3: Perl on Android
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 17, 2012 at 15:42 UTC

"Instead, I'm working with the perl-android-apk project to provide a recent and full perl interpreter with a procedure to build almost any CPAN module."

The way I read this they're actually working on something else, though I could be misinterpreting it.

With the spec of these small/portable devices (for example Google Nexus 7) improving at such a rate running a Linux distro such as Debian which performs reasonably shouldn't be out of the question. I've seen people dual boot Android and Linux on devices (see: Dual Booting Android 3.2 and Ubuntu 11.04 on an Asus Transformer for example), this has been going on since the first generation of Android phones. Of course, your mileage may vary.

Wither this is enough to meet your requirements is another issue. As Corion mentions the process is fairly resource intensive, that said the Nexus 7 seems to have a decent spec (though I'd prefer more RAM in these things if it were going to be a development system).

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