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I just started trying to pick up Android development in the last few weeks. I'm comfortable with Java from college, but don't really keep up with it or the ecos
by lghh 9y ago
I just started trying to pick up Android development in the last few weeks. I'm comfortable with Java from college, but don't really keep up with it or the ecosystem. Should I consider Kotlin for learning the platform with, or are the docs and learning resources Google provides not up to speed yet?
Note: I'd eventually just use Kotlin anyways cause I don't care all that much for Java.
- Filligree 9y agoIt's easy to use Java libraries from Kotlin, to the point that there's nearly a 1:1 syntactic mapping. So in my opinion, yes, you should be able to use Kotlin from the start. That said, I've never written an Android app. There may be issues with that particular platform.
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- kazman68 9y agoIf you can read code in Java, then you'll be able to pick up Kotlin within couple of hours, the only difference in Android APIs in Kotlin are the nullable types as parameters