Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android
by mncolinlee on Monday February 05, 2018 @09:41PM
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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
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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.
Re:Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android
by mncolinlee on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:30PM
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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...