Hi emg. I did start to get into Android like everyone else via Java & Eclipse but I found it to be slow and cumbersome.
I had a look around and found this guy called Erel who is creating something called basic for android or B4a as we call it.
This is the only language that I know of specifically created for Android and its starting to show.
It keeps getting better & better as Erel continues development on it.
Think Visual Basic for Android.
www.basic4ppc.com