Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android

Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by MBlume on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:02PM (#16313054)

Curious, is anyone inside of Google using Kotlin for their Android apps, or is this all for third party developers?

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by mncolinlee on Monday February 05, 2018 @09:41PM (#16314062)

I heard the Android data binding compiler was written in Kotlin. At KotlinConf, they announced that Google had dropped Java altogether for writing Lint rules because of Kotlin's much greater capabilities for handling deprecated code and IDE quick fixes.

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by ptx on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:40PM (#16318880)

Wasn't the linter thing just about moving the lint rules (for checking proper Android API usage) to a language-independent format so that they could be shared by Java and Kotlin? Previously they only worked for Java code.

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by mncolinlee on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:30PM (#16326787)

You can watch the KotlinConf session video by Tor Norbye. It was what you said and more. To clarify, I meant they dropped Java internally for their own lint rules, not that they dropped support.

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

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by euyyn on Monday February 05, 2018 @06:11PM (#16313114)

I know of one app for sure, but I don't know if I can tell :)

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Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android by daram on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:02AM (#16316603)

Director of project management, Android, said of Kotlin last July: "we're already using it ourselves to write code in Android Studio which gives us more ideas for making our support even better." https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/07/20/android-ama.aspx

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