<div dir="ltr">There's "Scripting Layer For Android, or SL4A": <a href="https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/">https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/</a>, 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.)<div>
<br></div><div>AppInventor is pretty cool, but you'll still need more work to do complex things.</div><div><br></div><div>David<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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?<br>
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A) Is anyone developing for Android in a language other than Java? If so, how do you like it?<br>
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B) Has anyone tried AppInventor, formerly from Google and now MIT? If so, how do you like it?<br>
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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.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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