Writing DroidScript plugins with AIDE

[Steve Garman]

It turns out that creating plugins for DroidScript is easier in AIDE than the Eclipse projects recommended by the DroidScript developers.

A user of both DroidScript and AIDE has put together a DroidScript project that has an option to create a skeleton AIDE project for writing a DS plugin.

Once AIDE has been used to develop the guts of the plugin and an apk has been built, another option in the DroidScript project converts the apk to a DroidScript plugin and installs it in the local copy of DroidScript.

Details of the plugin builder are at
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/androidscript/NgsEdMST6HE/y-miUeVdAwAJ

Please note, both DroidScript and AIDE need to be installed on the android device before using the plugin builder.

[Chris]

DroidScript is a very interesting development tool.

The ability to go from blank layout to an app with layouts, buttons, images, in mere minutes is insanely fast and easy.

Now bring in AIDE. Since DroidScript can be extended using plugins, AIDE is the perfect building tool. I just finished a FtpClient that allows DroidScript to communicate with a FTP server, wrote entirely in AIDE.

These two great apps make a development environment worth looking into.

Happy coding!
Chris

[Pete Kane]

Hi Chris sounds interesting have you got a sample of the code needed to write a plugin ?
 

[Chris]

Hey Pete, yes, the AIDE gen builds a sample plugin that interacts with DroidScript.

You'll need both DS and AIDE installed.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/androidscript/NgsEdMST6HE/y-miUeVdAwAJ

I love AIDE, but have found that designing in DroidScript is almost effortless.... but, as I said, AIDE brings the ability to extend DS, and if you start looking into DS you will find my plugin 'FtpClient' under the plugin menu in DS... it was wrote using my AIDE plugin gen and AIDE.

Both are terrific apps!