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A year of Android

Lara Martín 👩‍💻 on June 28, 2017

My name is Lara Martin, and I’m writing this series to chronicle my learning journey with Android. In my first article, I wrote about how I switc...
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Ben Halpern

What language(s) do you currently work in Lara? And what's your perspective on Java vs Kotlin?

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Lara Martín 👩‍💻

Hi! Only Java because it's the language used in the courses. Also we use Java at work.
Kotlin is in my TODO list, I can't give my opinion yet. All my colleagues and friends praise it. When I saw a Kotlin demo at Google I/O I was impressed, so I'll definitely try it! :)

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Ben Halpern

Nice! If I can offer some general advice, it would be to not to feel pressure to move to the new hotness. Learn Kotlin if it interests you but Java ain't going anywhere 😋

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Jess Lee

Were you doing Udacity fulltime?

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Lara Martín 👩‍💻

Hi! I've been working full time. I did all my Android learning in my free time: evenings and weekends. I was doing around 10 hours of learning per week. :)