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Re:Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android an... by stockkid on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:51PM (#21361377)
In Go, there is an official, experimental project called gomobile [0] that allows one to generate a Java or Objective C binding to be used in mobile projects based on Go source code.

It comes with some restrictions and is still deemed experimental. But it could be a viable choice in the days to come.

[0] https://github.com/golang/mobile

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Re:Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android an... by eliasnaur on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:26AM (#21368319)
Gomobile bridges Java and ObjectiveC/Swift to Go, and probably entails the same overhead the author is trying to avoid.

Shameless plug: If you like Go and immediate mode UIs in particular, Gio[0] runs the same Go code across desktop and mobile alike. No bridging or native code required.

If you like a more mature framework and don't mind Dart, I think Flutter is an attractive toolkit. I started Gio wanting to write a Flutter clone in Go before going for the immediate mode design.

[0] https://gioui.org

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