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Hi,

If I would like start developing applications for Android OS, in what languages I can do it? Which languages have good support etc.?

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Tomasz Prus
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hey,

I guess java is a good development language for android, i made some tutorials and it seemed flawlessly good :-).


greetz,

Michallis
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Yes, Java as always is good.. but i'm interested in what languages else e.g Erlang, Scala, Closure? What about Ruby? Do those languages have mature environments and tools for Android?
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:-) ok

for a nice and fast overview for JRuby on android :
http://www.slideshare.net/janberkel/ruby-on-android-ruboto-irb-android-scripting-environment

greetz,

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If you want to develop Android applications in Ruby, you should look at RhoMobile: http://rhomobile.com

Perry Hoekstra
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Doesn't Android have it own programming platform almost same to Java? (the reason of the lawsuit from Oracle)
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Elchin Asgarli wrote:Doesn't Android have it own programming platform almost same to Java? (the reason of the lawsuit from Oracle)



Android is on a hacked up Apache Harmony JRE, Oracle made I mistake with the lawsuit imho, it put the seed of fear in other company's with an ambition to utilize Java in their projects, and will let microsoft say things like "don't use java, Oracle will sue you!"

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/10/12/1849206/Oracles-Newest-Move-To-Undermine-Android
Oracle made a deal with IBM, and now IBM developers are being encouraged to develop for the OpenJDK instead of Apache Harmony (and they were the driving development force.)

As far as I can tell Apache Harmony has been picked up by the Open Source community and development hasn't taken that much of a toll.
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Tomasz Prus wrote:Hi,

If I would like start developing applications for Android OS, in what languages I can do it? Which languages have good support etc.?

Regards,
Tomasz Prus



Android development is all Java, if you want to develop for the Android platform you should know Java.

I'm sure theres ports of scripting languages which run inside of the JVM, however for languages such as this you will probably require knowledge of Java still, to access Java API's within the scripting language.
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