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This is my primary hacking tool for throwing little scripts together on Android. You can bring up an IDE in chrome on your PC and interactively execute it on your phone. I hope this gets fixed.

I wouldn't really be surprised if EVERY scripting/programming app in the play store technically violates some play store rules, though.

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Well damn, now I want to download it. I've never gotten into mobile development because getting started always seemed like a chore, but this sounds like it would be fun to play around with.

Try making a React Native app using Expo. You write JavaScript on your PC (but you can access native functions) and the app will automatically refresh on your phone near instantly.

You can later eject it to an Android Studio/Xcode project if you want.

Whatever you choose, moving to mobile development is extremely fun once set up. Usually IDE if your choice reloads the app on the phone over the cable for you, so the feedback loop is really nice.

Try Flutter! Great SDK to get started with mobile development, and dart is a really nice language

Having tried neither, Flutter sounds like the polar opposite of both the experience and capability that GP mentioned. I'm sure it's nice but can it be developed interactively in a PC browser as described above?

Flutter is hacking just your own app, Droidscript sounds like it could be used for anything in other apps (maybe even ad click fraud).

Do these scripts run as the IDE? If so it seems like they could be held responsible for any bad behavior engaged in by their users.

Let's be clear: for Google's definition of bad.

> I hope this gets fixed.

Define "fixed", it was removed from Play Store but anyone can still install from APK or F-Droid, right?

It's closed-source and paid. Not allowed on F-Droid.

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