A bigger question on my mind has been why would a shop as smart as Google not have started out with a sane language like python in the first place instead of foisting this java idiocy on another generation of devs.
Compare this with the late PyS60, where you installed a little SIS on your phone, 2MB or so, and could then run simple Python scripts. Forwarding all incoming SMSs to another phone number was a six-liner or so.<p>I've never used it to build big apps, only toyed around with examples, but then again, it wasn't made for the big applications, rather for small ad-hoc scripts.<p>Kind of Eclipse plugins vs Emacs scripts.
I don't use Android devices, so I wouldn't know, but is this the first instance of mobile Python on Android OS?<p>Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years...not to say iOS is better, just that I'd expected this would happen...sooner?<p>That said, the Python distro on iOS is only 2.6-ish, not even 2.7, and there's no 3.x release there. It's not very useful but I guess I did use it a lot for learning back then.
This is really cool!<p>I'm interested in creating daemons that, for example, forwards SMSes to my email and records made voice calls. Is API good enough to do that?