I've worked with Kotlin/Android a good bit, and would highly, highly recommend it. It is especially useful considering that Android has Java 8 support for syntax only, but standard libraries (like the Streaming API) are only available on much newer versions of Android and so cannot be used because of backward compatibility reasons. Kotlin lets you do all the functional .map { }, .filter { }, etc. that you want, and it still compiles down to Java 6 bytecode to work perfectly on all Android versions.
They also have the Anko, Kotlin Android Extensions, and Android KTX libraries, which are all a treasure trove of useful extensions to make the Android APIs much nicer to work with.
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I agree with you. What's important, JetBrains is constantly improving Kotlin and working on extending its capabilities. New versions are being often released, and that's great.
As a mobile app engineer, I'm happy about the appearance of such an advanced language as Kotlin. In our company, we use it more than 50% of our Android development.
Null-safety, extension-functions, coroutines, JVM backend, JavaScript official support, and many other cool features make it an effective tool for writing apps. By the way, TechBeacon included Kotlin in the list of 5 emerging languages with a bright future.
Is it a fair assumption that the rest of the 50% is essentially HTML/CSS/JS? While I do webdev, the appdev side of things is still cloudy; I'm unsure if there'd be anything else required.
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I've worked with Kotlin/Android a good bit, and would highly, highly recommend it. It is especially useful considering that Android has Java 8 support for syntax only, but standard libraries (like the Streaming API) are only available on much newer versions of Android and so cannot be used because of backward compatibility reasons. Kotlin lets you do all the functional
.map { },.filter { }, etc. that you want, and it still compiles down to Java 6 bytecode to work perfectly on all Android versions.They also have the Anko, Kotlin Android Extensions, and Android KTX libraries, which are all a treasure trove of useful extensions to make the Android APIs much nicer to work with.
Those links are all new to me; butter smooth Android integration indeed. Thank you, drive-by story-teller.
I agree with you. What's important, JetBrains is constantly improving Kotlin and working on extending its capabilities. New versions are being often released, and that's great.
As a mobile app engineer, I'm happy about the appearance of such an advanced language as Kotlin. In our company, we use it more than 50% of our Android development.
Null-safety, extension-functions, coroutines, JVM backend, JavaScript official support, and many other cool features make it an effective tool for writing apps. By the way, TechBeacon included Kotlin in the list of 5 emerging languages with a bright future.
Is it a fair assumption that the rest of the 50% is essentially HTML/CSS/JS? While I do webdev, the appdev side of things is still cloudy; I'm unsure if there'd be anything else required.
Your comment makes me better appreciate my PyCharm subscription. When the time comes, it's all a few clicks away.