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Re:Official Go support by pjmlp on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @05:12PM (#8358289)
Given Android's core team statements at Google IO 2014 about Java being the only official language, with no plans to improve the NDK beyond the existing support, I find it very hard to ever happen.

Unless Management forces the team to change their mind, that is.

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Re:Official Go support by shadowmint on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @08:59PM (#8359342)
> no plans to improve the NDK beyond the existing support

:| really? Got a link to that?

I really thought that they'd finally gotten over themselves and realized that lots of people want and use the NDK.

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Re:Official Go support by pjmlp on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:35AM (#8360545)
Yes,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3meJyiYWFw#t=1566

- Java is the official language, that is what the team has invested into

- You can use the NDK for your favorite language, but beware that you are required to use JNI anyway for Android APIs

- Not possible to do any comment regarding Java 8 support.

- Only use Scala for business logic, no tooling support plans

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