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by realharo 4531 days ago
If by JavaScript you mean making a webview-based app with something like Cordova/PhoneGap, then that's not a great option either. Pre-4.4 WebView on android is notoriously bad, and things as trivial as smooth scrolling are a huge issue. The same app performs fine on iOS and on Android 4.4 which uses Chrome's engine, but unfortunately it will be a while before older versions go the way of IE6. I agree that C++ is not a solution for portable GUI apps either (although it works great for portable games since OpenGL ES runs on pretty much everything.)
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https://crosswalk-project.org/ is a Chromium-based runtime that works on Android 4.0+