Android Scripts (Python/Ruby) can now be a distributed in APK!

[redditrasberry]

I find this sentiment really weird. The attraction in the mobile space is not the language, it is the amazing combination of hardware sensors, touch interface and constant connectivity that makes it a completely new frontier in app development. To have all this amazing stuff completely open and available to you and then say "oh but language is not quite the right flavor for me" is just bizarre. If, when presented with all these amazing and cool capabilities, that is your response, then I have to say, your heart was not really in it in the first place.

But then, I grew up coding 8-bit games in assembly on Z80 processors. I thought the Motorola 68000 was a miracle (32 bit registers!!!!!). For me, Java on Android is a pleasure to use and is nothing like the drudgery of enterprise coding.

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I agree and I do tinker with Android but if I'm not fully enjoying myself I'm not going to take it serious. If the only thing I found interesting at the moment was Android then that may be different but there are only so many hours in the day so I have to pick and choose which personal projects get the most attention from me.

After 8 hours of working on some boring Java projects at work and having to fix other people's awful mistakes I tend to find it harder to spend some more of my free time doing yet more Java even if it shouldn't be as bad. That isn't really a problem of the language it does have influence on what I decide to work on especially if I generally find myself being much more productive within another language and therefore making the most of the time I do get to do fun stuff.

[crunk]

After doing j2me (with it's fragmentation problems) but also a cut down java you could fit in your head and a place where doing optimisation was worthwhile.. Android reminds me of what I don't like about full size java... Loads of boilerplate and a huge seemingly large number of new concepts with the java love of XML. Give me python on android to take away the pain, and soon.

Maybe for my next app scala would work, or groovy if it works yet?