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by nine_k 4309 days ago
Not so secret. Go's 5g compiler can produce ARM code, runnable on an Android device. But Android's APIs are mostly Java, so for regular apps you have little benefit in using Go; for games, you could gain something.

See a small overview: http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/06/golang-google-android-nati...

A JVM-compatible language which is better than Java, e.g. Kotlin, would be a boon for regular Android development.