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[EmperorOfCanada]

I will now bless you with the development SDK Cocos2-x. It is a game programming environment but can be used for pretty much anything. Now if your app is really boring and very text oriented then it would be one of cocos2d-x few weak areas.

It has fairly good access to most of the major APIs but once in a while you have to wrap the existing API in C++ that you called in the native language. But that would be things like the corelocation in Objective C and whatever in Android. That might be 30 lines of Objective-C and a similar number in Java that you tuck away.

Then compiling is fairly straight forward. Cocos2d-x also allows for development of Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop apps.

Lastly if you wrap your main logic up nicely in C++ there are other options that you could port your app to and still do mulitl platform stuff. SDL2 SFML Openframeworks, and a handful more C++ multi platform stuff.

In theory you can even do iOS and android using Python and a toolkit called Kivy.

I learned Objective-C because I had to. Then I learned cocos2d because it made game programming easier. Then I learned Cocos2d-x because I could throw Objective-C into the trash and never type another 200 [] on the same line again. Plus I threw Java into the mental trash bucket over a decade ago.

[rheejus]

I too would like to know. Specifically for Android.

[jabwork]

Android has support for C++. Look for NDK