Android development with Scala - Presentation Transcript Android development with Scala @jberkel Scala? • a better, more modern Java • based on the JVM, Java (binary) compatible • multi-paradigm: functional, oop • soon mainstream? twitter, ebay... better? • purer OO (no primitives) • less boilerplate ([gs]etter) • less code (type inference) • no checked exceptions • no 1:1 file - class mapping typ