Problems using Rhino on Android

Question

I\'m trying to use Mozilla Rhino in my Java application for Android to evaluate some JavaScript. I am using Eclipse + ADT plugin.

First I tried simply downloading th

Answer 1

An Android-compatible edition of rhino1_7R2.jar is available on the SL4A site, in the version control system. Here is a sample project that wraps up Rhino and BeanShell into an Android interpreter service.

Answer 2

I finally got it to work. I should have paid more close attention to that blog post I linked.

If I add the line

cx.setOptimizationLevel(-1);

to disable optimisations, everything works perfectly.

Answer 3

I've written a library which allows to run Rhino on Android.

Advantages include:

• Rhino can only run on optimization level -1. The library supports all levels.
• The library supports the use of JavaAdapter, which is not possible with base Rhino.
• Altough i did not benchmark this, it should give a performance increase. (Compiled code is faster than interpreted code)

https://github.com/F43nd1r/rhino-android