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Mirah for Android Development

Mirah is a new JVM language that offers Ruby-like syntax, type inference, closures, metaprogramming, and macros. It lets you write expressive code without the penalty of requiring its own runtime environment. As such, it is very well-suited for tareting platforms in which introducing additional runtimes would be impractical; to wit, Android devices.

This talk will introduce using Mirah for Android development by way of the following topics:

  • A survey of other JVM languages on Android and their pitfalls.
  • A brief introduction to Mirah and its relation to Java/Ruby.
  • Using Pindah to start and build a toy Mirah application.
  • Mixing Mirah code into an existing Java/Ant application.

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