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Android has not incorporated most of Java 7 or 8's new features so I don't think the pace of Java features has anything to do with the Kotlin adoption.
by guelo 9y ago
Android has not incorporated most of Java 7 or 8's new features so I don't think the pace of Java features has anything to do with the Kotlin adoption.
- tylergetsay 9y agoThe upcoming release of Android studio/it's Gradle plugin support a lot of Java 8 features right out of the box. No need for plugins to patch things like lamdas
- the_trapper 9y agoHonestly though, I think this is really more a result of the Android SDK team being drug kicking and screaming by the competition. Solutions like React Native, Kotlin, Xamarin, RetroLambda, and of course Kotlin were starting to become very viable alternatives to the official SDK.
- umren 9y agobut, they all use official sdk ;-D