On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 13:19:12 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 12:30 +0000, Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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learning the Android API - after all, JDK8 + tooling is
bearable now.
On the other hand Android API is Apache Harmony which is Java 6.
Yes I keep forgetting that - wishful thinking maybe.
Of note: Groovy finally works on Android, so you can use what
Java 8
brings, on Java 6 and Java 7 using Groovy. And note Groovy may
be a
dynamic language, but it is also a static language.
I'll look into it. Perhaps this question is just too broad, but
if you wanted to develop an application on the Android platform
right now, what approach would you take? Java, Groovy, web-based?