
Wow. "One crazy idea that the team had at that dinner was to
translate Android's source code to C#. Android would benefit from C# performance features like structures, P/Invoke, real generics and our more mature runtime. [...] We decided it was crazy enough to try. So we started a small skunkworks project with the goal of doing a machine translation of Android from Java to C#. We called this project XobotOS." Most of Android's layouts and controls are now in C#. The small benchmark is stunning, but as much as I admire the work, I'm wondering that this like going from bad to worse - from Oracle's Java to Microsoft's C#.
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2007-10-09
Dunno, but (without having tried) it "seems" that only C/C++ are supported via NDK on Android. So maybe GCJ isn't supported there (and I'm honestly not sure it's still maintained upstream much, if at all, though I could be wrong).