When Perl met Android

Sysadmin / Perl Ninja

http://search.cpan.org/~xsawyerx/

http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/

Developed by Google for mobile devices

Java UI framework.

Android holds 28% - 2nd place

iOS holds 21% - 3rd place.

[NPD Group study]

Over 70,000 apps available for Android

About 60K Android devices sold daily, about 22M a year

About 60% of Android Apps are free compared to iPhone’s 25%

U.S. make up 65% of Android devices.

Linux-based

Open source

Community-driven

Pretty UI

Well supported

Has an emulator.

Java..

Java...

(Formerly ASE: Android Scripting Environment)

Java bridge between interpreters and Android

JSON RPC server

Serializes object methods and params to JSON

Root required for new interpreters

Supports Python, JRuby, Perl, Lua, Javascript...

6 lines for a barcode scanner!

Dialogs (input, alert, selections, progress, etc.)

GPS, ringer mode, airplane mode, etc.

Sensors, vibrators, etc.

Data on the phone (contacts, SMS msgs)

Run servers in the background

(Stevan got Plack running!)

(I got Dancer running!)

Provides an object

Uses AUTOLOAD to provide any API method

Returns hash with results (errors, msgs, etc.)

use Android;

my $droid = Android->new;

$droid ->speak( “Hello from Perl!” );

An SMS msg and a contact

It sends the SMS when you reach the location

Supports tags (such as country name)

Roughly 90 lines of code in a single file

Would have helped me avoid my first ticket.

Create a virtual device

Install SL4A

Add a Perl interpreter

Write your script

Upload it to the virtual device

Run, Forest... RUUUUUN [the script] !!