I was looking for some examples of using foreground dispatch for the NfcAdapter class today, and I stumbled on the scaloid-apidemos for the scaloid project ( blog ), which leverages the Scala language on top of Java and works with Android. So, I'm still not sold on Scala quite yet, but I thought it was interesting enough to note that Scala works on .Net and Mono as well. I highly recommend just browsing the Learning Scala page.