Moving to 2.x still seems like more trouble than it's worth, but maybe I'm just burnt out on learning another templating system =/
http://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.2.5/templates#s...
Seems the Android guys are facing the same problems with Groovy in their Gradle based build system, and the Gradle team are considering switching to Scala for Gradle 2 to keep Android on board.