@dr.henry When your friends say Kotlin is confusing developers, they are probably talking about themselves.

@cedric Thanks Cedric. Maybe you're right. My question's reason is that I want to sure to spend my time and reduce my "Java skill" on a true way.

Between the Android community and more recently Google, it's fair to say Kotlin is receiving a lot of endorsements for Android development.

@dr.henry Think about what your ultimate goal is. Programming languages are tools that aim at bending a platform to your will.

Learning a new language targeting your platform isn’t going to “reduce your Java skill”. It’s going to give you a new perspective on problem solving for your platform

@cedric Very awesome. More than Java ?

@nish Thanks Nish. You're right. But my time is very limit. I don't want to waste that.

Time wasted is time spent not learning new things IMO

@nish But if that new thing is useful for you to follow you goals.

I know I am over sensitive on choose and learn language. It's because of my goals and time.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🙂 Thank you guys

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@User uploaded a file:

Are these “min sdk version” they support?

Hi. Any experiences with http://spekframework.org/ ?

My build immediately fails with Unresolved references

I added the dependency on the module and in android studio it shows no errors. Just upon build it shows that some classes are not resolved

Am I the only one to get his semi-randomly Imports related to architecture components (lifecycle, room) are broken but it compiles fine. Using kotlin 1.1.2 and gradle 3.0.0-alpha3

Also this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44488620/kotlin-kapt-and-android-architecture-components-build-fail

@fahadmk commented on @qlitzler’s file : try latest version i guess its 1.1.2-5

from the error it seems it asks for jdk 1.8. what you have in your proj?

@User uploaded a file: from crash reporting I get this error time to time. Exception I use obfuscation

I already have this on my proguard file. -keep class kotlin.** { *; }

anyone had similar issue?

Does Kotlin automatically use Java 8 bytecode if the minsdk is 24? Or is there only a java compiler for Java 6? edit: Sorry, should have googled first. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/whatsnew11.html#jvm-backend It can generate Java 8 bytecode. Still, that doesn't answer whether this is automatically enabled.

@David W Automatically? I don’t think Kotlin automatically uses anything

hi community, I have an easy question for you, but not for me. Yesterday from AS I added the Kotlin plugin and run the transformation of the java class, a Retrofit 2 callback with two inner classes as all of you know, Response and On Error

well the problem is that the class is automatically refactored with the kotlin keyword

object