Programming Android App using Ceylon

Question

Can I create android app using Ceylon? Since Ceylon can run of any JVM, the implementation of Ceylon to create android app should be pretty simple as far as I understand. Is it like Scala where the size of App becomes considerably larger and have to use proguard or SBT-android plugin? How viable is it? Can Ceylon be good option for this? If yes, can somebody point me to the proper direction?

Answer 1

Seems that Chochos' answer is a bit outdated. Here you can see that the Ceylon team has already published (January 2014) some initial Android support, even with an Eclipse plugin.

Another older thread that talks about this is this one. It would be great if during these 7 months of 2014 they have ironed out most of the kinks, and writing Android apps with Ceylon is already a pleasure. I myself will test this ASAP.

UPDATE: There's a "Ceylon-Android" compatibility plugin that one can install.