Perl Client on Android

For now, installing Perl Client on android requires many steps. Hopefully, this process will get much simpler once perldroid update is released.

Installation

1. Download and install SL4A
   
2. Download and install perl-for-android
   
3. Run Perl For Android application and press install
4. Download !ProgArm client.
   
5. Move ProgArm client into sl4a/scripts folder
6. Download required perl modules. The reason for this step is described in Problems and Complications part of this page.
   
7. Move perl_modules folder into sl4a
8. Run SL4A application and execute android_launcher.pl

Problems and Complications

Some inept person forgot to put feature.pm into sl4a perl, therefore things like:

sh: 1: pygmentize: not found

use v5.10;

will not work at all. Because of that, we must include feature.pm somewhere else.

Currently, perl_modules should include:

• feature.pm - for the reason stated above.
• File:: - although it exists in default installation, it seems to be broken. (dirname subroutine not found)
• Hook::LexWrap - this is a standard dependency of Perl Client.

Once perldroid update is released, we will probably forget about feature.pm and File:: hacks.

How about native client written in java?

Native client is the easiest solution, but it fails short to satisfy our project Goals.

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