Next Steps
In this chapter, we learned about how to install and use the Scripting Layer for Android to write programs using powerful scripting languages like Python and Ruby. We also learned about scheduling those scripts to execute at predefined intervals using Tasker and TaskBomb. And we also discovered that there are a host of other programming language runtimes available for the Android platform, giving us considerable flexibility in choosing a language for building our Android scripts and applications.
Keep in mind that no matter how elegantly we structure our scripts using the approaches described in this chapter, the system resources (memory, processor utilization, and so on) consumed by interpreted scripts running on the phone are ...
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