LanX has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi

Anyone else using Perl on Android here? (See Termux)

I'd be interested to know what for? :)

Share your use cases please!

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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Re: Termux, Android and Perl
by johngg (Canon) on May 30, 2019 at 14:19 UTC

    I have Termux installed on my phone and tablet but have used Perl only a little, really just to test that scripts written for a Linux environment could, with minor shebang tweaking, run under Android. I don't really understand enough about how Android works, how it lays out its filesystem and how applications are segregated into their own little worlds. I don't currently have any Android/Perl projects in mind.

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

      > I don't currently have any Android/Perl projects in mind.

      I deliberately asked an open question, but let me elaborate further

      One is able to ...

      • share stuff (links, text) with termux
      • scripts in the bin directory can handle those shared things
      • install cpan modules
      • forward a link to android's browser
      • start a Web server listening on local host

      Isn't that pretty much all you need to write an "App" in Perl?

      Example?

      Well what about a Perlmonks-App hosted on CPAN? :)

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

Re: Termux, Android and Perl
by morgon (Priest) on May 30, 2019 at 22:44 UTC
    Yes, I am using perl on Android.

    But in a Debian-environment on top of termux (https://github.com/sp4rkie/debian-on-termux).

    And mostly I use it to remove drm of ebooks which probably is not even legal, so I won't dwell any further on it here...