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Not really.

Oracle refuses, due to political reasons (AOT vs JIT), to provide an AOT compiler as part of the standard JDK.

Currently there are two open source AOT compilers,

http://www.robovm.org/

http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/

And a commercial one, that requires use of a compilation server at Codename One

http://www.codenameone.com/

Yes, that is the approach I am doing with my mobile hobby projects, which are mainly small games. Hence my question.

By day I am just another dull enterprise developer.

What about C++? That is, after all, what many game studios use across mobile devices.