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Tips: Helper Files

androidhelper.py for simplifying Python-for-Android SL4A development in IDEs.

This creates a "helper" class derived from the default Android class and defines SL4A R5 functions with API documentation in DocString & uses RPC calls derived from the base android.py.

Details

You can import this file into your scripts in your IDE to use Autocompletion, Documentation popups etc.

To Use: replace the standard import android line with

try:
  import androidhelper as android
except:
  import android

This will pull the helper class in if it is available, and fall through to the default android class if not.

Generating

To generate this file, I have written createandroidhelper.py.

After some trial & error, I finally chose to use the HTML documentation contained at http://android-scripting.googlecode.com/hg/android/ScriptingLayerForAndroid/assets/sl4adoc.zip to generate androidhelper.py.

Note that this currently has issues with 2 API functions which need manual corrections in androidhelper.py - both documented in the file comments.