(04-07-2013, 05:12 PM)diyorgasms Wrote: I totally agree. Everything about Android development is nightmarish. Ubuntu is a far cry from KISS philosophy, but at least with a compiler you can build (or write) whatever software you might need.

Have you seen Inferno running on android phones?
https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home
While very unpolished and experimental, it really shows that as long as you have all the drivers and base band binaries that are required for your phone to work, you can really stick anything you want on top of the Linux kernel, at least it would appear for the Nexus phones.