We had previously many talks about getting multitouch support for Android, and you probably remember Luke’s work to demonstrate capabilities of G1 to run multi-touch. Today we have a breaking news from France, a team from the ENAC interactive computing laboratory - including Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar, Stephane Chatty and Sebastien Hamdani - succeeded to bring native multitouch support to Linux.

The code released is a proof-of-concept of what could be done with linux kernel and need to be improved for production, but you can see already a demo in the video below of their actual work

To run the sample provide you will need Linux kernel 2.6.30; a computer with a Broadcom 5974, Stantum, NTrig or DiamondTouch surface (the HP TouchSmart tx2 has a Ntrig surface, but you need to get the appropriate firmware from the NTrig site); their NTrig, Stantum, or DiamondTouch driver, or the Broadcom 5974 driver from Henrik Rydberg; in addition to demo code.

More information could be found here

Google Open Source Blog announced on Monday a new revolutinary solution that brings scripting to Android devices ! Now you can edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device, with access on to many of the APIs available in Android such :

• Handle intents
• Start activities
• Make phone calls
• Send text messages
• Scan bar codes
• Poll location and sensor data
• Use text-to-speech (TTS)
• And more

Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we’re planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well.

Android Scripting Environment is not available in Market, but you can download the latest APK from project page http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting, you can find also documentation and sample usage. ASE group is available here http://groups.google.com/group/android-scripting

Google have always encouraged developers to make applications for Android, now with ASE  they encourage even users to become developers using scripting like Python and Lua … even if you are not developer you can simply get a demo code, customize it and you are done !