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The Android operating system provides a powerful, open platform for mobile development. It leverages the power of the Java programming language and the Eclipse tools platform. Now you can add the Scala programming language to that mix. In this article, see how you can use Scala as the primary development language on Android.

Make it substantially easier to access Twitter than just opening an HTTP connection and doing the work by hand as well as making Twitter easily accessible to Java clients and Java developers. With this new Scala Scitter library you wont have too much to do to get started leveraging the Twitter API.

Learn how Scala's functional nature, which aligns well with Twitter's RESTful nature, and its extremely good XML processing features, makes it easy to build a Scala client library to use Twitter API to query its public timeline of tweets. This article shows you by example, how to use Scala to build the basic framework for a client library for accessing Twitter.

Actors aren't a panacea to fix every concurrency problem your code might run into, but they definitely present a new way of modeling your application or library code, using constructs that look and act in a fairly simple and straightforward manner. See how programming in Scala Actors demands a slightly different style than programming in "traditional" objects

The "gateway drug" to Scala for many, if not most, Java programmers is the promise of easier coding when dealing with concurrency and writing thread-safe code. In this installment of the The busy Java developer's guide to Scala, Ted Neward begins to dive into the various concurrency features and libraries provided by the Scala language and environment.