From InfoWorld: Google's Go language, which is centered on developer productivity and concurrent programming, can now be officially used for Android application development.
The capability is new in version 1.4, released this week. "The most notable new feature in this release is official support for Android. Using the support in the core and the libraries in the golang.org/x/mobile repository, it is now possible to write simple Android apps using only Go code," said Andrew Gerrand, lead on the Google Cloud Platform developer relations team, in a blog post. "At this stage, the support libraries are still nascent and under heavy development. Early adopters should expect a bumpy ride, but we welcome the community to get involved."
Android commonly has leveraged Java programming on the Dalvik VM, with Dalvik replaced by ART (Android Run Time) in the recently released Android 5.0. OS. Open source Go, which features quick compilation to machine code, garbage collection, and concurrency mechanisms, expands options for Android developers. The upgrade can build binaries on ARM processors running Android, release notes state, and build a .so library to be loaded by an Android application using supporting packages in the mobile subrepository.
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