<story><title>Rust in the Android Platform</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thesuperbigfrog</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; For the past 18 months we have been adding Rust support to the Android Open Source Project, and we have a few early adopter projects that we will be sharing in the coming months. Scaling this to more of the OS is a multi-year project. Stay tuned, we will be posting more updates on this blog.&lt;p&gt;Patiently waiting for the Rust APIs to arrive . . .&lt;p&gt;Java feels so heavy, so getting to use Rust would be a breath of fresh air.&lt;p&gt;(Kotlin has been better, but it also requires the JVM.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>The third paragraph says&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Managed languages like Java and Kotlin are the best option for Android app development. These languages are designed for ease of use, portability, and safety.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re not going to write Android Activities in Rust. Nothing is stopping you from adding Rust code to your Java&amp;#x2F;Kotlin app though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rust in the Android Platform</title><url>https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-platform.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thesuperbigfrog</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; For the past 18 months we have been adding Rust support to the Android Open Source Project, and we have a few early adopter projects that we will be sharing in the coming months. Scaling this to more of the OS is a multi-year project. Stay tuned, we will be posting more updates on this blog.&lt;p&gt;Patiently waiting for the Rust APIs to arrive . . .&lt;p&gt;Java feels so heavy, so getting to use Rust would be a breath of fresh air.&lt;p&gt;(Kotlin has been better, but it also requires the JVM.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>They say earlier&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself.&lt;p&gt;So, this seems to be about &lt;i&gt;in&lt;/i&gt; Android, not building apps &lt;i&gt;for&lt;/i&gt; Android.&lt;p&gt;Guess we&amp;#x27;ll see with more posts!</text></comment>