Not that Java isn't clunky, but Eclipse makes it so much nicer. It's worth the investment if you think you'll do more! Were you just text-editor-ing?

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As a new Eclipse user I must recommend IntelliJ, in a grass-is-greener fashion.

If you try out Scala for Android I'm curious how that experience is doing.

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Here's a recent thread on using Scala on Android:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15tr21/less_painful_android_development_with_scala/
Sounds like it's not really ready for prime time. You pretty much have to run proguard, which is difficult to set up and adds 3 minutes to the build-deploy cycle.

The comments also mention xtend: http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/ Since it compiles to Java, it should improve the deployment aspect. Also, apparently it should work in the debugger now: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=386725

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(Note that the Android debugging thing is scheduled to show up in a release on March 20, otherwise you'll probably have to use the "bleeding edge" update site)

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C# is slightly closer, but imperative languages just basically suck.

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