[TeamMCS]

I'm really excited to see this. When Android was first released I was over-the-moon thinking about all the various applications I could build. As I started building a few all the noise of Java and the poor testing and tooling was really getting on my nerves.

My most popular release is very event centric which means tons of anonymous inner classes polluting the code and making the entire thing quite aesthetically displeasing.

With Android Studio (IntellJ), Gradle and hopefully Groovy a lot of that noise and pain can be removed. I would be dubious moving over to that or Scala until the Big G approves but it speaks reams for the future.

I does sadden me that Groovy has fallen by the wayside these years (as primarily Groovy developer) given it is such a jump over Java. Scala looks great but for the type of apps (web/mobile) it still is rather verbose and slow to compile - not ideal for RAD imo. With Java 8 coming it's good to see they've taking Lambas over, even if it's a bit clunky.