ok so i have

droid.startSensing()
time.sleep(1)  # Give the sensors a moment to come online.
sensors = droid.readSensors()
print sensors

i am trying to make this

droid.startSensing()
time.sleep(1)  # Give the sensors a moment to come online.
sensors = droid.readSensors()
print sensors.result.zforce

as in the .lua program i need help on doing so thanks

Here you are :

print sensors['result']['zforce']

Is there a way to get CALL_STATE? It would've be handy to block tas while iphone call is active

Is sensors a dictionary? Does readLocation work similarly?

Yes, readSensors() gives you a dictionary and readLocation() also gives you one

Thank you. I've noticed there is no Tkinter module. Is there another module or workaround that could be used to build GUIs?

Any chance of a sqlite3.so module?

Can you create normal GUIs or is that stuff not exposed by the API? I didn't see a mention of it.

Is there no Bluetooth control under the Python API?

Thanks very much for this. It looks very promising.

I tried to write a small app to turn WiFi? on, but I am getting an RPC error on

droid.setWifiEnabled(True)

In my Applications info section, I do not see that the application ASE can switch wifi on or off. Can that be a bug?

Thanks, Animesh

I believe adding

CHANGE_WIFI_STATE

and

ACCESS_WIFI_STATE

To the manifest file will help.

Also, an added method

droid.setWifiEnabled(False) 

would be of help.

Thanks, Animesh

Sorry, I meant the method

droid.getWifiEnabled()

According to the source below

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/source/browse/trunk/android/AndroidScriptingEnvironment/AndroidManifest.xml

it seems "CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" and "ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" are permitted, but I still get the "RPC error" on "setWifiEnabled".

Does anyone have idea?

I'm interested in the GUI possibilities with this. Anyone know if it's possible? I guess I could just download the kit and play around...

Currently no GUI is available, I'm not even sure if it will.

Tknowles, fancy seeing you here. Aha well no guis for me yet then.

I'm so happy I can mess with python on the go. Thanks devs! I have a quick question and some suggestions for you knowledgeable folks. Can someone elaborate the common intents portion of this guide? Suppose I want to load a webpage in the browser, how would I use a browser intent to make it happen? Also for the suggestion, I noticed a lot of the commands listed above don't show when i do a dir(droid), are these hidden on purpose? Also, if more doc strings had some instructions that'd be a good improvement.

I tried the script :

code = droid.scanBarcode() droid.makeToast("The code is %s" % code)

when the code was running, the bar scanner worked, but when it captured the bar code and return to ASE, the script seems restart, and the bar scanner started again and again and again. it seems entered the indefinite loop and the toast never show.

Is it the bug of ASE? or I made a mistake?

The scanBarcode issue is tracked here: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/issues/detail?id=76

hi, is there ani API available for bluetooth?? if any in other scripting language??

Hi, how can i start an application from the script? My idea is to start an application from locale, so the script can run gtalk when i am outside home. Can i also start the auto-sync from a script? Thanks!

Hi,

has anybody an idea how to get numpy work? I tried to install it, but it seems to need a c compiler. Could it work if one had the libraries compiled for ARM?

Thank you for every hint!

@chintanpandya89 There is no Bluetooth API available for Android yet. @alvarmontes You can start applications using the startActivity API. It requires the package name of the activity to start. Auto-sync toggling is not currently supported, but there is a plugin for Locale to do that. @f.govaers numpy is not currently part of the build. If you'd like to add it, you'll need to cross compile it and bundle it up with the python.zip to be installed by ASE. In the next release, pure Python modules can be installed by simply copying them to the SD card.

Is it possible to have a scrip running even when the screen is of? I made a script for periodic saving gps location and another one for saving it to gmaps... but it isnt much of use if the script for periodic saving of my location doesnt work even while the screen is off...

@batsup It should keep running under normal circumstances. Android can shutdown running applications though if it runs low on resources.

for animesh, here is a wifi toggle script that works with Android and python. the carriage returns are messed up when I save it here but you get the idea - it opens a list of running processes and then greps for the wifi process. if it exists, then it turns off wifi. if it doesn't exist, then it turns it on.

here is the script code:

import android import os import time

droid = android.Android()

process = os.popen('ps | grep tiwlan_wifi_wq').read()

if process:

droid.vibrate(100) droid.setWifiEnabled(False) time.sleep(2) droid.exit()

else:

droid.vibrate(100) droid.setWifiEnabled() time.sleep(2) droid.exit()

hello,

can we import TK composant using "import tk" ? or can a script access to the graphics API of the android device , and how?

regards

2 quick questions, how can we check to see if a camera or other button is pressed, and how can we start an external activity?

@a113.yb The tk module is not built in. There is currently some limited support for GUIs (there's an input dialog via getInput()). I plan to add more support for GUIs in the future. @DaSwampy? Listening for button presses is not currently supported. Please file a feature request on the issues page. Starting an activity is supported via startActivity(). See "Raising Arbitrary Intents" above.

Figured it out, should add this link to the wiki: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html. Just use the listed intents with startActivity() and it works! :)

Is there anyway to intercept an intent? For example to add a prefix to a 7 digit dial number?

Hi Im trying to start an app. What am I doing wrong?

import android

droid = android.Android() droid.startActivity('com.google.code.apndroid') droid.makeToast("apn started") droid.exit()

@geriatricdanceparty I'm not sure Android supports that exactly... I can think of some possibilities. But for now, this is definitely not possible in ASE.

Hi is there a "droid" call to startService using this android python interpreter?

hi, I have a question: I need to start an application ( say Browser ) from Python / Perl script... How to do it?

Some of the aps are considered 'intents' and are called as noted above (though browsing is not clearly identified) I'm not sure about standalone applications, say for example a flashlight app, or power manager, but I would suspect something like 'os.exec path2app/app' should do the trick.

@arb.job.qa @rusty0101 I just submitted a new API to make launching arbitrary activities possible. In the next release, you'll be able to use droid.launch('com.android.browser.BrowserActivity?') to start the browser. in r13 and before, it is not possible (at least not easily).

@larsfp You also need the new launch API to do what you want.

@prscott1 What service do you want to start exactly?

Thank you, damonkohler! Could you post full list of PythonAndroidAPI here? With new API we will be able to start the Browser but do we have any options to make some "browsing" activities ( load page, click some links)?

Actually, the question is more general - if I need to start an Android application using Python script how to do it?

Here is a webserver for ASE python on android phone.

The comments in the script explain the code make sure you read them all! #Password protcted web server program by Merlin Spiers © 2009 merlspiers at gmail dot com #Shows your phone and allows you to access it wirelessly through you web browser #You have to be connected via a wireless lan #Then run the script and it will show your ip address then you access the phone #by going to <your ip>:8000 #Scroll down and enter the password and username fields or withwise you can login with #"username" & "password"

import SimpleHTTPServer, BaseHTTPServer, base64, os, sys, android, string, time

def colint():

status = a = os.popen('netcfg','r') while 1:

line = a.readlines() if line:

status.append(line)

else:

return status break

return status

def upips(work):

status = a = 0 while a < len(work0?):

if "UP" in work0?a?:

status.append(work0?a?)

a += 1

return status

def nolo(work): # given a string (with embeded '\n') break as needed, return # list of strings w/o 'lo' in them)

status = a = 0 while a < len(work):

if "lo" in worka?:

a += 1

else:

status.append(worka?) a += 1

if len(status) == 1:

rets = status0? statusl = rets.split() status = statusl2?

return status

def displayUp():

nets = colint() nets = upips(nets) return nets

def displayNoLo():

nets = colint() nets = upips(nets) nets = nolo(nets) return nets

if name == 'main':

droid = android.Android() droid.makeToast(displayUp()) time.sleep(5) droid.makeToast(displayNoLo()) time.sleep(5)

// # Please change these values to your desired login and password ALLOWED_USERNAME = "username" ALLOWED_PASSWORD = "password"

class HandlerWithBasicAuth?(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):

def do_GET(self):

if self.authorised():

SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)

else:

self.returnUnauthorised()

def do_HEAD(self):

if self.authorised():

SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_HEAD(self)

else:

self.returnUnauthorised()

def authorised(self):

1. look for an "Authorization" header
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

auth_header = self.headers.get("Authorization", "") try:

if auth_header.startswith("Basic "):

base64data = auth_header6:? data = base64.decodestring(base64data) username, password = data.split(":", 1) if username == ALLOWED_USERNAME and password == ALLOWED_PASSWORD:

return True

return False

except:

raise return False

def returnUnauthorised(self):

self.send_response(401) self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html") self.send_header('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm="Secure Area"') self.end_headers() self.wfile.write("""<html> <head><title>Authorization required</title></head> <body> <h1>Authorization required</h1> </body> </html>""")

def test(HandlerClass? = HandlerWithBasicAuth?,

ServerClass? = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):

BaseHTTPServer.test(HandlerClass?, ServerClass?)

if name == 'main':

test()

@merlspiers Cool, thanks! Do you have a blog to post this too? If so, I can add it to the tutorials page.

Yes the link to the actual file is http://www.axifile.com?7257034

Hi, I installed ASE and python on emulator with SDK1.6. Is it possible run NTLMAPS that is python application in emulator? how to do that?

just copy all lib and code under some directory?

thanks

keivn

@merlspiers Your webserver code is really length, try this:

import android from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer as server_class from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler as handler_class

droid = android.Android() dirs = '' port = 8000 server_address = (dirs, port) httpd = server_class( server_address, handler_class ) httpd.serve_forever()

Yes but that won't provide the solution that I wanted. With my example you have more control over the server. It's mainly coded as an example.

I am using ASE + Python with Locale. My main purpose is to call forward my number when I travel between Home and Office. I am a beginner coder and I would like to ask: 1. How to close the ASE and return to HOME after it runs? Putting the ASE into background is a solutoin? 2. I saw some Message showing on screen after successful registration of number forwarding. Is it possible to switch off the message? (just like we set Echo Off in old DOS era)

@arb.job.qa I'll update the Javadoc with the new APIs once I cut a new release. You'll be able to see the syntax for the new launch API then.

@chankinwai You can exit a script and ASE with the exit() command. As for running scripts without the terminal, currently the only way to do that is to run it as a service.

@ren.xiaowen09 Adding new Python libraries is easy if they are in pure Python. In that case, yes you can drop it in the Python extras folder on your SD card. Otherwise, it requires cross compilation. If you find a library you think should be added, please file a feature request on the issues page.

i want to force shut a certain application (meebo) through locale on a certain condition. is this possible with a python script? (right now, i have only the r_13 API, as donut is not available for the htc hero)

@awognar Yes, it is possible. The command is forceStopPackage(packagename). It should be in the Javadoc, but it looks like it's not updated... That I'll have to fix.

Wonderful project you have here. I have a few questions though since I'm pretty new to all of this. 1) Can we use the captureImage() command to attach a photo to gmail? 2) Is there any way to utilize the "Voice Search" api and output the said text into a string? and 3) If I was to compile this as a standalone application, would I be able to hide the terminal?

Hi! I noticed that the notify() method doesn't allow you to attach an intent, in order to e.g. open a certain program or webpage when the notification is clicked by the user. Is there any way to do this? Maybe using lower-level api calls? Perhaps using startActivity or something... Thanks! --David

Is there any way to write a file with python in ASE. I ave tried opening a writable file; but it returns an error about the file system being read only. I have also noticed that we do not have permission to create files or make folders on the sdcard in the terminal. I'm running ASE on a Droid with android 2.0.

I'm able to write files to the sdcard just like normal. Could your sdcard be locked or something maybe?

I can write them normally but try programmatically. Even in shell if I try ping -c 2 >> test.text, I get an error about the file system being read only. If I use astro I can write to the card fine.

I feel like a moron. I was trying to write to the root, not /sdcard.