It's a gray area and depends on your definition of "native". For example, a Java program is certainly not native by most people's idea of "native". But the offi

It's a gray area and depends on your definition of "native". For example, a Java program is certainly not native by most people's idea of "native". But the official API's and GUI interfaces of Android/Linux are based around Java, so it's native in relation to the official APIs. Someone making a a high FPS video game for Android/Linux might disagree that a Java app is native to that platform.