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Two years on: I use AIDE, their brief summary of features states: Edit-compile-run cycle: Create a sample App with a single click Run your App with a single click No root access required Incremental compilation for fast build times Uses Eclipse .classpath project format for compatibility Integrated LogCat viewer Real-time error ...

If you do scripting languages at all, check out SL4a (Scripting Layer For Android). It gives you access to the android API in each language - Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell. It comes with its own basic editor, but you can specify a different editor if you have others installed - I've used the Jota text editor with it. Get ...

I have an app called C# To Go in the Android market that provides a basic C# REPL. It's certainly not meant to be a real development environment, but does allow you to play around with the language and compile things on the fly.

Why not give Ruboto IRB a go. From the app description: Interactive Ruby running on Android. Edit, save, and run scripts on the phone. Great for learning, prototyping, and small apps. Ruboto IRB taps the power of JRuby to open up the Android API.

I know you're looking for programming apps actually on the phone, so this might not be overly helpful. I found an app called Splashtop Remote Desktop that with a WiFi connection, you can control your computer at home. I've tried it for reading documents and playing around. However; I think it could be used to write code using whatever utility you have at ...

In case you only need a cross compiling environment with the standard Linux build tools there is an easy solution already included in the Android-NDK: In the subdirectory build/tools of the NDK you find a scrip named make-standalone-toolchain.sh. using the parameter --install-dir= you can specify a path where to create the standalone-toolkit - for example ...

I'd suggest you take a look at Terminal IDE: Terminal IDE is an expandable terminal application, with a full Java / HTML / Android development kit, that runs on your Android device. It uses the command line, with many powerful and robust open-source applications, plus a custom ASCII on-screen 'soft' keyboard that works well (You must ENABLE it in ...

There are some instructions for building and testing su on Github. The build procedure is: Build instructions Usually su-binary is compiled against AOSP tree. If you're gonna compile it yourself, you have to follow first two steps described in the AOSP Getting Started page: initialize a build environment and download the source tree. Note: ...

And if you are looking for a web development solution for e.g. PHP, you might want to take a look at PHP programming app with hosting?: PAW Server for Android -- amongst others -- offers you a web server with support for PHP (via a plugin), and comments in the linked question also mention some nice programming editors.

The Android Scripting Environment said to plan on Ruby. Might be worth a check how far they got; at least they're tagged "JRuby" at Google Code. According to their project page: Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, in the background, or via Locale. Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell are currently supported, and ...