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

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.