Scala, Android and Eclipse

Question

I\'ve started learning Scala, and I... I think I\'m in love. I\'ve only coded small test snippets so far, but since I currently working in Android development, what I really

Answer 1

We are using Scala heavily to test our Android code - you can read a writeup of how we're doing so here. We use Ant or SBT to compile - there's an excellent SBT plugin for Android development.

Having said all of that, I'm not sure that I would recommend Scala for production Android development. In particular Scala 2.9.x is basically unusable as there is no good way to get the libraries to work on Android. You can read about the issue here.

It's a real pity, as Android development would benefit considerably from Scala if we could get it working properly.