Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android

Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by vesinisa on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:33PM (#16312404)

> You may notice that Android KTX uses package names that begin with androidx. This is a new package name prefix that we will be using in future versions of Android Support Library. We hope the division between android.* and androidx.* makes it more obvious which APIs are bundled with the platform, and which are static libraries for app developers that work across different versions of Android.

Ugh, okay. It's going to be a blast refactoring all my existing code and custom tools to reference this new package.

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by jontro on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:48PM (#16312539)

Hopefully just a couple of simple global search and replaces? Anyways I think the current support library structure is confusing and it's a good thing that they will refactor it.

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by izacus on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:20PM (#16312783)

Android Studio handles that pretty well and it'll probably fix most of those in a single "Optimize imports" pass.

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by on_and_off on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:22PM (#16312792)

Absolutely, it sounds like something that tools can handle for us or that would not take long to change even on a large codebase anyway (because you would just do a pattern replace)

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by mncolinlee on Monday February 05, 2018 @09:51PM (#16314096)

It's worth noting that one of the great features of Kotlin is how it simplifies deprecating code and writing quick fixes. This is why Google scrapped Java for writing Lint rules entirely. I expect a simple Option-Enter may resolve these kinds of issues across an app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8yX5-lPS6o&list=PLQ176FUIyI...

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