At Bump we use Scala for our the service layer of the application that manages connectivity to our servers and deals with our "business logic". It's a great language when you are within it's rules, and a great way to do succinct state management.
But writing Scala in Android is chock full of gotchas as well. Just today I was dealing with the scala compiler not finding a public inner class in the Android framework, forcing me to rewrite that class in Java. I am fairly new to Scala myself but stuff like this does come up, and can eat up more time than expected.
We've promised a blog post with more details on the pains and triumphs of using Scala in Android. Also if you're going to be at the Scala Days conference next week at Stanford, we're going to be giving a talk about this subject.
But writing Scala in Android is chock full of gotchas as well. Just today I was dealing with the scala compiler not finding a public inner class in the Android framework, forcing me to rewrite that class in Java. I am fairly new to Scala myself but stuff like this does come up, and can eat up more time than expected.
We've promised a blog post with more details on the pains and triumphs of using Scala in Android. Also if you're going to be at the Scala Days conference next week at Stanford, we're going to be giving a talk about this subject.