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		nindalf on June 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Next Twenty Years of Java: Where We've Been an... Its not possible to use only Go for Android application development. The goal of both the Go team and the Android team is to make Go a candidate for JNI development as an alternate to C/C++. The rest of the Android app, especially the UI can only be written in Java.

tapirl on June 5, 2015 [–]

It is possible, maybe not now, but very possible later.

UI just is graphics painting using OpenGL ES.

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