wasn’t there a way to use enums like ints or somet...

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[michaelzinn]

wasn’t there a way to use enums like ints or something? What was that called?

[karelpeeters]

You mean calling .ordinal on them?

[michaelzinn]

No, I meant you have a function (e.g. in the Android API) that wants an Int and will later return an Int. What you usually do is create a bunch of Int constants and use them, but I think I heard about declaring an enum in such a way that you could pass its values as an Int without calling .ordinal() on them.

[michaelzinn]

Maybe I’m confusing it with another programming language…

[karelpeeters]

There's IntDef in Android.

[michaelzinn]

Yeah, guess there’s nothing better than that.

[karelpeeters]

I kind of dislike IntDef, it solved a nonexistent problem. You get a bunch of articles like this talking about how enums make your dex files bigger, but meanwhile the play store is is filled with 60MB website wrappers. https://android.jlelse.eu/android-performance-avoid-using-enum-on-android-326be0794dc3