Android soon to be able to distribute Python apps as .APKs

ASE is awesome, but it doesn't expose the full android API to python scripts. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/ApiReference" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/ApiReference</a> is what you get currently, though this list seems to be growing pretty quickly.

Project #6 for the Ruby Summer of Code is getting JRuby apps on Android to work:<p><a href="http://rubysoc.org/projects" rel="nofollow">http://rubysoc.org/projects</a>

I've been really happy ever since I installed Python on my Droid. It's really fun to show off how you can access text-to-speech with droid.speak().<p>I'm not sure I buy it will be useful for development without a custom VM, but I have the full power of a 500 mhz (ish) processor wherever I am.

Anyone know how scripted apps affect battery life?

Just to provide a counterpoint: N900/Maemo has had the ability to have apps distributed in an arbitrary language since launch, and Nokia seems to especially like Python, sponsoring the developement of Qt bindings for it etc.

Now the important question, will it hurt frame rate if games are developed using Python instead of Java for android?

I hope this stuff is executing on top of Dalvik and not via the NDK.

Noob here: What about the GUI? How it will be created?