Scripting for tablets?

[Dave "Crash" Dummy]

Is there such a thing as a scripting language equivalent to vbscript or
jscript that works on Android based tablets? I use HTA scripts
extensively on my Windows systems and would like to do the same on my
Amazon Fire tablet.

[Auric__]

Post by Dave "Crash" Dummy
Is there such a thing as a scripting language equivalent to vbscript or
jscript that works on Android based tablets? I use HTA scripts
extensively on my Windows systems and would like to do the same on my
Amazon Fire tablet.

Nothing standardized, no. There are various this-n-that's you can use. I
think I would start with Scripting Layer for Android:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_Layer_for_Android

It supports several languages, including JavaScript. Development seems to
have stopped a couple years ago, but there are nearly 500 forks, at least
some of which should still be active.

[Mayayana]

"Dave "Crash" Dummy" <***@invalid.invalid> wrote

| Is there such a thing as a scripting language equivalent to vbscript or
| jscript that works on Android based tablets? I use HTA scripts
| extensively on my Windows systems and would like to do the same on my
| Amazon Fire tablet.

I'd be surprised if such a tablet lets you do
anything useful. It sounds like, "can I cook
dinner on my car's exhaust manifold?" Well, sure,
theoretically.

But I know little of Android or of devices
like phones and tablets. I did find this:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2992458/android/run-windows-applications-on-android-via-wine.html

Android is Linux. I've installed WSH on Linux
with WINE.