I'll give it a try tomorrow. I don't have JDK 8 installed on this machine, but I know it's on the other one that I was able to build Android apps on.
@zakwilson thank you
@zakwilson i feel like i am not far, but still not found. i suspect the error to be around the annotations.jar by google. not that it is in it but around it as a topic
@zakwilson PARSE ERROR: unsupported class file version 52.0 ...while parsing android/annotation/SuppressLint.class 1 error; aborting
@zakwilson HURRAY!!!! I got it to work. Thank God for the internet. I am using JDK 1.8, build-tools-version 25.0.3 . the problem was indeed the annotations.jar that you can find in /path/to/sdk/tools/support/ I replaced it with the one I found at https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.android/annotations/4.1.1.4
@zakwilson and it worked. I deployed my first clojure based android empty app on my device
@zakwilson your opinion on the state of Neko is welcome.