Re: Lua in Waze

[Pierre Chapuis <catwell@...>]

I have checked the content of the APK of a slightly modified version of Waze [1].

It looks like Lua is used for two purposes: skins and small scripts [2].

According to cloc, the "scripts" directory contains 425 lines of Lua code,

while the scripts directory contains 9064 lines.

[1] https://forum.frandroid.com/topic/248852-waze-cge/

[2] https://gist.github.com/catwell/cc3c1b6212af8fcb5b67c8b1fd24dfdf

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Pierre Chapuis

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018, at 09:49, Pierre Chapuis wrote:

There is evidence from Google cached versions of the Web forum that it is used at least for UI themes.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LGrWEmtjlzAJ:https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D3%26t%3D11873%26start%3D370+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr&client=opera

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Pierre Chapuis

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018, at 02:20, Charles Heywood wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/6k2w5p/enter_an_address_how/djnm33u/

Perhaps it's used internally?

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:11 PM Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

It has come to our attention that Waze uses Lua.

Indeed, waze-4-35-0-15.apk does include Lua 5.3.3 and contains a few

Lua scripts.

However, we couldn't find any information online about this at all.

Does anyone know a reference or details about the use of Lua in Waze?

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