After spending a couple of days dealing with Android NDK madness, some esoteric and intricate Linux implementations on this device, I finally got node js latest to run as a native app on Android.
I was planning to originally run a v8 client on Android so I started with the v8 port. That one was easy. However, when I realized how much benefits node brings to any JavaScript development, and
not only server side, it was obvious that the rest of the stack needed to be ported.
I did some research, hoping someone had gone thru the hoops already. But all I could find was a direct port done on Linux arm and running with root privilege. I couldn’t adopt this approach because my ultimate goal is to deliver JavaScript apps running on standard phones and available on Android market.
Now that I am done with the initial port, my next task is to clean up the codebase, refine some of the plug-in native bindings, fix a bunch of remaining specific issues (e.g. fs, console, ipv6, etc…) and post the result of this work on github (ldesegur/nodejs-android.)
Let me know if you have any interest. I would certainly appreciate any help on this project.
Laurent Desegur 
cool! will look into this
Appreciate if you could help on how to get started.
ant debug and run it as .apk?
The project is built using the command line standard android way from the top dir.
Thanks for the reply.
I see that hello-js.cpp does “node -e process.stdout.write(process.version)”
How can I start a http server with this sample program? I tried “node /data/example.js” in hello-js.cpp (with /data/example.js in android device). It didn’t work.
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