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I'd rather use JS on V8 to develop for android. Not necessarily nodejs but an in-house brew made by google, optimized for android and tailored to web hobbyists.

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A thousand times yes to this comment. I have had a great deal of fun playing with the V8 engine, and it would beyond cool to write code for the Android using it. Android Chrome already has it integrated, so it should definitely be feasible.

My prototype of a pure JavaScript chinese checkers runs fine on my Nexus One http://halma.artifia.com

I created a small wrapper for it, similar to PhoneGap, to be able to put it in the Marketplace, too (not yet published, for lack of visual polish).

Beautiful. I like the simplicity of it.

Thanks - the graphics for the stones are actually from a friend's iPhone app. Unfortunately I can't find it in the app store anymore, he seems to have removed it. My main interest with the prototype was to see if the AI in JavaScript would work.

You should make an iPad version and sell it on the app store.

A wooden background is all you need, something like:

http://www.gametableapp.com/

or

http://mashable.com/2010/03/31/game-table-ipad/

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