Or you could try programming in Scala, though it's an awkward fit to Android. Scala's standard library is large enough to strain size limits on an Android app,

Or you could try programming in Scala, though it's an awkward fit to Android. Scala's standard library is large enough to strain size limits on an Android app, to the point that shrinking things down with ProGuard is pretty much a requirement. That said, using the tools of more modern JVM-based languages can tighten up your code in all sorts of ways. An experiment along those lines is here: https://github.com/rst/positronic_net https://github.com/rst/positronic_net http://rst.github.io/positronic_docs.html http://rst.github.io/positronic_docs.html