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Honey, There Is a Python in My Android Phone!

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This is a small code snippet that I have written in Python for the POC of getting the GPS coordinate from android phone: import androidhelper import json import time from bottle import Bottle, run, response, request app = Bottle() droid = androidhelper.Android() @app.route("/location") def get_location(): droid.startLocating() droid.eventWaitFor('location', 12500) time.sleep(0.1) current_location = droid.readLocation().result if not current_location: current_location = droid.getLastKnownLocation().result droid.stopLocating() response.content_type = "application/json" return json.dumps( { "result": current_location }, indent=4 ) This project was initiated during my Christmas vacation, inspired by Android Barcode Scanner as I was looking on the solution that I could catalogue my books by scanning the ISBN using android phone. This quick solution did save me enormous amount of time in cataloguing my books. Intriguing by the design of APIs that can interact with android intents, I decided to dig further to understand how the APIs works. In concept, there is an RPC call between android app and python interpreter within the app that acts as a bridge, which allows python APIs to trigger Android intents, upon calling related APIs. For example, using the code snippet above, when Python GPS API is executed, the API will send request to Android GPS intent via the RPC call. Once Android intent receives the request, it will grab the GPS data, and passes the GPS data back to Python GPS API through the same channel. Reference: python-for-android Qpython Android Barcode Scanner