[mctavjb9]

I can totally relate to the statement: "If, like me, you'd rather eat glass than sit down to write some Java code in Eclipse, it would appear that you are out of luck when it comes to implementing your next project on Android." I've been attempting to educate myself about Android development for a side project. Dealing with Java has been an impediment, as my brain seems to grok scripting languages far more easily.

[rnicholson]

If its a less verbose language that you are looking for, you might want to checkout mirah (and pindah) -- https://github.com/mirah

I believe its still under heavy development, but really nice in that mirah can output dalvik bytecode.