It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android

Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by majewsky on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:05AM (#12699411)

I think you just proved the point of the author. I haven't done any app development yet, but from how you describe it, it seems to be as hard to keep up with it as with the JS ecosystem. No wonder then that the author has trouble keeping up with two entirely distinct ecosystems, and chooses to focus on only one.

(That said, I'm very glad that this is the top-voted comment, since it looks like a very valuable resource for lurkers who want to get into the topic.)

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by izacus on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:25AM (#12699493)

IMO it's really not (but I might be biased by experience) - the library churn is nowhere near the speed of the JavaScript world. All the libraries I mentioned are a few years old, battle tested and any larger conference or a resource (Android Weekly, Fragmented podcasts, etc.) will have numerous articles and talks on how to use them.

The only exception is Kotlin as a language, which is pretty new and the tooling is still improving. You're not going to hurt TOO much if you stay with Java6 though.

Remember, we at the end of the day we're all just old Java farts and we like our stability ;)

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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by dmix on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:38AM (#12701437)

I'm not super familiar with the Java world. Will eventually adopting Java 8 improve the experience developing Android apps where you might not need Kotlin?

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