@neil i heard good things about the N7 for hobby stuff but it being from 2013 i would want something a little more current

yeah, it's quite old for sure, though it did get 6.0.1 stock so it's quite modern by software standards

same version as the Samsung Galaxy S7

unless you think otherwise? i am 100% new to android and this stuff so i am open to any advice 🙂

To me, anything with good screen & high-density is okay 😀 You won't want to see your app in a crappy screen.

I think that it depends on what you want, you can likely get a Samsung tablet from the last couple years for cheap as well but a lot of them probably still have Lollipop on them

if you want to do anything with run-time permissions you'll need to have a tablet with Marshmallow

as long as it ships with 6.0.1 I would say most Samsung tablets are fine for development if you can find a cheap recent one

gotcha!

for what it is worth I love my nexus 9. you can get a 16gb model used on amazon for less than 200

let me start reading some reviews and browsing around 🙂 thank you all for your input! reason #34873 i love kotlin and its community

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does anybody had this error on android gradle plugin 2.4-alpha1?

Error:Cannot get property 'metaClass' on null object

disabled incremental compilation. now it fails to build my project:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException (no error message)

probably too early for 2.4

If I want the class's this pointer in an lambda expression. What do I need to type? I though I could write

ClassName@this

? The equivalent in java is

ClassName.this

ah! thanks! close but no cigar then 🙂

Is there a way to trigger kapt without rebuilding the whole project?

Does anyone have a recommendation as to whether using RxJava 1 or RxJava 2 is optimial for android dev with or without Kotlin?

Im used to RxSwift and want something fairly paralell, the readme for RxJava 2 seemed to be moving sideways

there are still lots of dependent libs that haven’t added rxjava2 support, so i’d probably still choose rxjava1 if i were starting something new

but i’d expect that answer may change in 3-6mo

ic

that said, if you don’t mind having both libs in your app, you can certainly go with 2 for now and add 1 if you need a dependent lib that hasn’t added it yet. afaik they can coexist

Im moving an app from iOS whats the safest android to target for the avg phone user out there

they are laggy with upgrades right

targeting worldwide or just the US or?

just the US