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So what about Kotlin? I thought Google supported it as a first class citizen for Android development. And now that it looks like Kotlin is more popular than Rea
by myth_drannon 9y ago
So what about Kotlin? I thought Google supported it as a first class citizen for Android development.
And now that it looks like Kotlin is more popular than React-Native for mobile development, they add Dart2/Flutter.
- pjmlp 9y agoDart/Flutter was already presented at Google IO 2017, and is how Fuchsia userspace apps are developed. As for yet another framework. Welcome to Google. Android NDK alone has already been through 6 build systems, 3 public and 3 used at Google. EDIT: 3 external were ndk-build, gradle experimental, cmake with gradle stable. The 3 internal, looking at AOSP and other projects, ndk-build, blaze and Soong.
- moocowtruck 9y agoout of curiosity have any idea why so many build systems? just flinging spaghetti at the wall until one is ideal? I mean I understand its good to rewrite software every so often but 6 in the timeframe of android ndk?
- pjmlp 9y agoSome of them are internal mind you, things like Soong are only on the AOSP source code. https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/soong/ https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/soong/ As for why, I guess reasons.