What is the current state of D for android development?

[Paulo Pinto]

On 28.03.2013 07:13, js.mdnq wrote:
> I would like to get into writing apps for android and would like to
> choose D for this if it is mature enough.
>
> What is the D progress on the android?
>
> I see that at least others are interested but not finding a ton of
> information:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/20120204203109.26c9a80b@jpf-laptop?page=1

Please note that native development in Android has a second class status.

Support is only available as a means to bring "legacy" C and C++ code to
the platform.

The few Android APIs available to languages outside the Dalvik world are 
actually wrappers around JNI calls.

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Paulo