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Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by sbochins on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:16PM (#2585773)
I thought there were some GC optimizations needed to make it work efficiently on android. I was under the impression it worked ok for Android 1.2 phones and up.
Re:C'mon, stop writing Java for Android by technomancy on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @06:41PM (#2585855)
> I was under the impression it worked ok for Android 1.2 phones and up.

It works OK in the "You can run a repl on your phone if you don't mind waiting a few seconds" sense. That's a far cry from "You can build a usable application with it."