Android App from Go programming language

Question

I am hearing buzzes about Go programming language from google. Wikipedia describes it like this: "Go aims to provide the efficiency of a statically-typed compiled language with the ease of programming of a dynamic language". I was thinking that since it is a language from the maker of android, they should have some support for creating android Apps. Is there any tool to create android App from Go? Is Go worthy language to learn with an assumption that "SOMEDAY" android might be based on GO.

Answer 1

There's currently no way to build Android apps with Go, and some hypothetical future version of Android isn't a good reason to invest time in Go today.

That said, Go is a great language, you can do a lot with it like write webservers, command line apps, and even AppEngine apps. So there's lots of good reasons to learn Go! But Android isn't one of them.

Edit: As of Go 1.5 it is possible to write Android apps completely in Go or as a Java app calling a Go JNI library. iOS is also expected to arrive in time for the final 1.5 release. Go to https://github.com/golang/mobile for more details.