Hello. Not sure if this question is for here or <#...

# android

[Morgan]

Hello. Not sure if this question is for here or #getting-started but… If I wanted to start learning Android app development would I be better off learning Kotlin first or Java? (it would be my first proper programming language outside of learning the basics in a few back in college)

[Kris Wong]

Google has adopted a kotlin first stance for Android. However, there's still so much java out there, including most of the platform itself.

[Kris Wong]

so start with Kotlin, but expect to get into java

[Adam Powell]

Be able to read java when needed but start with kotlin

[Adam Powell]

Android is driven by a lot of architectural patterns that are a lot easier to manage in kotlin

[Morgan]

Thanks! So just grab Android Studio and it has everything ready for Kotlin included?

[Adam Powell]

Yep, kotlin is the default for creating new Android studio projects

[Morgan]

And what about resources to start learning? As I said this will be the first language I learn properly, i.e. with the objective of building a real app, but I have experience with a few languages from an academic perspective such as Java, C#, C, C++ and Python

[Morgan]

So I understand the principles for things like loops, conditional branching, pointers, structs, some basic data structures like arrays and such

[Adam Powell]

If you haven't done the kotlin koans yet that's still a good intro

[Morgan]

koans?

[Adam Powell]

It's a tutorial series https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/koans.html

[Morgan]

Thank you!

[Lou Morda]

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/
https://play.kotlinlang.org/

[Morgan]

How is Kotlin as a beginners language?

[Lou Morda]

the best. 🙂 imo of course

[Morgan]

Are there any recommended books or video series worth checking out as well?

[Adam Powell]

Not as easy as something like python but far easier than any other I've used for complex things like real world async programming