Is groovy a potential development language for Android [closed]

Question

I've recently started using groovy as an alternative to Java and I would like to develop Android apps in groovy. All the examples I have investigated seem to be quite old.

So I was wondering if it is possible to develop Android apps in groovy?

Answer 1

It's a great idea, and it's been tried with partial success - there was a project called DiscoBot that had things partially working - see http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/groovy-grails/groovy-android

However, it's a difficult proposition though, both because of the size of the Groovy runtime, and because much of what Groovy does to implement a dynamic language is not fully supported by the Dalvik VM.

That said, it is being worked on.

I'm guessing that the reason that you got some 'close' votes here is because you could have found all of this information for yourself with a quick search in your favorite web search engine.