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I program in Android/Java for my day job but use Go for my own stuff, and love Go and I'm pretty meh on Java. So I would love to see this (and to some degree work in this area is already happening in that you can technically run Go code on Android today and it will soon be suitable for things like OpenGL-based games).

When it comes to traditional apps, though I'm not sure how the existing Java APIs could be mapped to Go in a way that made any sense at all (I mean... technically you could do it via bridges to and from cgo<->ndk, but having it make sense in Go and be reasonably future maintainable seems like it would be a huge undertaking, even for Google). Seems more likely that something like Go+go-qml+Qt would be more practical, though I have yet to play around with the Android port of Qt enough to see if it is reasonably "native" feeling.




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