Creating Android apps without Java

Question

I\'d like to start creating Android apps but I don\'t like Java. I read that scala can be used to do it. Are there another option?(Clojure?)

I\'m a Python/Django dev

Answer 1

It's not hard to do with Mirah (formerly Duby), a very young language based on Ruby that compiles to bytecode that's basically indistinguishable from Java's, but adds some great new features like closures, type inference, and obviously a Ruby-like syntax. It's particularly well-suited for Android because it has no runtime or standard library (it uses compiler plugins instead) outside the JDK, whereas basically all other JVM languages bring along a lot of baggage, especially languages that weren't designed to target the JVM (like Ruby and Python).

http://github.com/technomancy/Garrett

Much nicer than writing Java!