Have you checked out the Android NDK? http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html You still hav

Have you checked out the Android NDK? http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html You still have to go through JNI and use Java/XML for the interface, but the NDK has been growing to encompass more and more with each release. (And in my opinion, keeping a standard way for making the actual UI users see is important for consistency. It's more difficult to enforce that with purely native apps.)