Kotlin 1.4 - Hackdot

Re:Kotlin 1.4 by amitheonlyone on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:52AM (#24197206)

I agree. I tried Kotlin when I was working on an Android app and it was a pleasant experience. Somehow, everything easily makes sense and the Android Studio support for Kotlin is excellent. I followed two Udacity courses before starting on the app. If it helps anyone, these are the courses:

Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers[0]

Developing Android Apps with Kotlin[1]

There's also an advanced android development course which is a follow up which I am going through now.

[0] https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-...

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-...

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Re:Kotlin 1.4 by scns on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @07:07AM (#24197301)

I would recommend working through Google's Codelabs if you wanna learn Android Programming with Kotlin. They are split up in Basic and Advanced.

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Re:Kotlin 1.4 by thecupisblue on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @10:10AM (#24198733)

I would recommend skipping anything google recommended and finding courses made by people with real android development experience.

Google has it's own way of doing things - boilerplate, overengineered and full of ugly practices. Anyone will be better of learning from a source that isn't a bunch of interns that got thrown into the Android team.

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Re:Kotlin 1.4 by pjmlp on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:39AM (#24197886)

Android team makes it on purpose to use Java harder on Android, for obvious reasons.

Even the samples use Java 7 style code when comparing for terseness.

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