Vala for Android?

Question

Is it possible to write a Vala application and get it to run on an Android device?

Answer 1

With the new NDK, you can write UI applications in C/C++ as well. As long as you have a C ABI, you can call anything from Vala you want, provided you have a .vapi file for it. The main obstacle is the lack of glib and gobject, but those can probably be compiled. After all, there's a Linux and a libc present.

Update: Bero Rosenkränzer did a nice presentation on the Android Builder Summit that shows the currently available ways to program Android without Java.

Answer 2

Yes vala is already compiled for android. But cant use with GTK.

http://valajournal.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/vala-on-android.html

Answer 3

Not for android as long as there is no gtk backend, but for Maemo and most likly it's successor MeeGo as it uses gtk and there is a vala packet in the developer repositpory. (as a matter of fact i already successfully compiled my own vala programm on my N900 phone with a dveloper chroot)