Is this channel only for android questions purely related to Kotlin? I see that <@U1VBC6HJ7> is reac...

# android

[Galou Minisini]

Is this channel only for android questions purely related to Kotlin? I see that @kenkyee is reacting to every single questions with 😶

[Igor Milakovic]

Haha, yeah, I'm having a hard time thinking up an Android question, which is exclusively related to Kotlin and not the SDK

[kenkyee]

Read the channel info please

[kenkyee]

click on the #android up top

[kenkyee]

you'll see this in the channel topic:

K android new Using Kotlin to build Android apps. Avoid 😶.

😶 questions should go here: stackoverflow; https://discord.com/invite/D2cNrqX, or http://android-united.community/, or https://androidchat.co/

[kenkyee]

it's also not every question...but folks forget this isn't a pure Android channel.

It's an Android channel on a *KOTLIN SLACK SERVER"

[kenkyee]

it's named kotlinlang.slack.com

[kenkyee]

it's not named androidstuff.slack.com

[henrikhorbovyi]

Very confusing to me also sometimes 😄
Compose channel can talk about Compose only stuff, but Android channel must be only Android + Kotlin

[gildor]

Compose channel can talk about Compose only stuff

It’s because Compose is 100% Kotlin library and Kotlin compiler plugin which can be used only with Kotlin, so it has own channel here (same as many other Kotlin libraries in this)

It’s matter of topic, topic of this channel to discuss Android and Kotlin specific questions

But Android is not exclusively Kotlin, there is a plenty of Android specific communities

[henrikhorbovyi]

Thanks for the explanation 😄
But I wanna know, and if (in compose channel) I ask something about compose that is not related to Kotlin… is it valid?

[gildor]

Well, I believe everything what related to compose is related to Kotlin 🙂
There is no other Compose community, Kotlin Slack is home for it

[gildor]

I would say that it’s the same as you can ask anything related to Ktor in #ktor channel, it will be on topic, but if you will ask general backend questions it will be offtopic. Same about #compose channel, if question is related to compose is on topic, if it related to Android in general and not related to Compose, it’s offtopic

[henrikhorbovyi]

yeah yeah… that make sense to me now. Thank you \o/