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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by wavephorm on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @09:51PM (#3512706)
I've had an impression that because of Android's abstractions you didn't have the same "bare metal" access, such that scripting languages have to be run inside a container app: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by guelo on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @11:13PM (#3512883)
Your impression is wrong, you can get access to the full Linux shell.
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Re:Jailbreaking Is Not A Crime by fpgeek on Thursday January 26, 2012 @05:26AM (#3513550)
It depends on what you want to do. Scripting Layer for Android is about letting scripting languages access Android APIs and services. In that case, you need some sort of container / runtime to talk to the rest of the Android/Dalvik world, but there's nothing that prevents you from getting at the bare metal, if that's what you want to do.
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