[ale] anybody doing android development and how?

[David Tomaschik]

There's "Scripting Layer For Android, or SL4A":
https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/, but I can't imagine trying to
commercialize an app written on that.  There's the Android NDK which allows
you to write C/C++ that's then linked into the Dalvik VM, so you still need
a small Java app to load the NDK code (plus then you need a separate NDK
app for each architecture.)

AppInventor is pretty cool, but you'll still need more work to do complex
things.

David


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> I'm considering doing some android development, mainly for hobby level
> playing with my tablet, as opposed to commercialization.  If I came up with
> something really cool, I wouldn't mind commercializing it.
>
> I don't necessarily want to learn Java for a few different reasons related
> to security, kludgy code, etc.  So, I have the following questions?
>
> A) Is anyone developing for Android in a language other than Java?  If so,
> how do you like it?
>
> B) Has anyone tried AppInventor, formerly from Google and now MIT?  If so,
> how do you like it?
>
> C) Is there any viable alternative to Java for developing and
> commercializing moderately complex android apps?  Think apps like, a text
> editor, a contact database, a basic music player, a movie database, a
> metric units converter, etc.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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