I think the more interesting thing is a link in one of the comments: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/scala-the-android-programming-languag

I think the more interesting thing is a link in one of the comments: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/scala-the-android-programming-language-you-didnt-know-you-had-170999 ...I didn't realise you could use Scala with Android's Dalvik. Admittedly, that's an article from 2011, and it's probably on hacker news somewhere already, but still...