Add Groovy support

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It would be great if Groovy could be used for scripting Android apps.

I'm not referring to precompiling Java to class files and retrofitting them 
for Dalvik VM, rather the ability to generate Dalvik VM-compatible bytecode 
at runtime.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by shonzi...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2009 at 10:04

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After some googling I've found that among Summer of Code 2009 projects there's 
one for porting 
Groovy to Android, under the mentorship of non other but Guillaume LaForge: 
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/codehaus/t124022
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http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/codehaus/t124022
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The results of SoC 2009 projects should be published sometime in October 2009.
Must we wait so long relying on two students? ;-)

One "Groovy on Android" experiment has been done without success "a long time 
ago" in November 2007 
by a Groovy developer James Williams: 
http://jameswilliams.be/blog/entry/2007/11/12/Groovy+on+Android-Not+Quite+There+
Yet

Original comment by shonzi...@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2009 at 10:15

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Original comment by damonkoh...@gmail.com on 16 Jun 2009 at 12:58

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For the latest, see

http://thediscobot.blogspot.com/2009/07/howto-run-groovy-on-android.html

http://code.google.com/p/discobot/

Original comment by neal...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2009 at 10:16

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Its now possible to compile groovy source code on Android so it should be
theoretically possible to use it with ASE. I have not tested it with BSE which i
guess ASE is using.
Is ASE using BSE and is there anything else groovy should be able to do? Just 
let me
know and ill get cracking emmediatly :)

Original comment by mail...@gmail.com on 26 Aug 2009 at 12:35

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Hopefully this isn't a dumb question, but what is BSE?

Original comment by damonkoh...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2009 at 7:07

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I meant BSF(Bean Scripting Framework), i think i misread the acronym a bit. No 
wonder
it seemed strange :)

Original comment by mail...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2009 at 10:16

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BSF works nicely with discobot now(the next realease is a week or so away), so
hopefully it will be possible to use groovy with android scripting in the near
future.

Original comment by mail...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2009 at 2:20

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No news still?

Original comment by hippopot...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2011 at 5:01

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Did anyone tried ?
What is the bottleneck ?

Original comment by tomcatalbino on 26 Jan 2012 at 2:24

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I tried a little.

First get the original binary & source.
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download

I wrote this sample code and named it "hello_world.groovy"

print 'Hello, Groovy!'

I looked inside the Rhino For Android / BeanShell For Android codes.
It seems to need a REPL command.
Groovy's command is like this in the JVM jar.

>java -cp groovy-all-1.8.6.jar groovy.lang.GroovyShell hello_world.groovy

So I tried to convert it to the Dalvik(dx) jar like this.

>dx --dex --output=c:\..foo..\base\groovy-all-1.8.6-dx.jar 
c:\..foo..\groovy-all-1.8.6.jar

And made an interpreter apk from the template from the repo and upload it to my 
web space and also made the zip like "groovy_extras_r1.zip", 
"groovy_scripts_r1.zip"
(the jar is in groovy folder inside the "groovy_extras_r1.zip")

It get's an error and fails when you excute the "hello_world.groovy".

I think my dx-jar is not good enough. But there must be a way to solve this.
I wrote this because someone could help this issue somedays...

Original comment by tomcatalbino on 12 Feb 2012 at 3:57

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This could be some hints.

http://code.google.com/p/discobot/

Original comment by tomcatalbino on 22 Mar 2012 at 3:12

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The google code page looks dead. Try this 
https://github.com/disco-bot/disco-bot/

Original comment by twellman@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2012 at 5:47