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nino
02/06/2018, 8:11 AMWhy Android KTX? https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/introducing-android-ktx-even-sweeter.html
Wouldn’t it be better to maintain the same coding style on all platforms?
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gildor
02/06/2018, 8:13 AMSame coding style? all platforms? What are you talking about?
Java and Kotlin? But with Kotlin you can provide much more pleasant API that impossible in Java, so make sense to have such extensions. Also everyone already have own versions of them and don’t forget about Anko
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nino
02/06/2018, 8:51 AMMy question refers only to Kotlin. KTX creates a even more simplified style only for Android developers, so that as soon as you got used to this it will be harder for an Android dev to write backend code in Kotlin
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ebonet
02/06/2018, 8:52 AMAndroid KTX are extensions to Android API
ebonet
02/06/2018, 8:52 AMit doens’t change kotlin
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nino
02/06/2018, 8:52 AMthat’s what I mean
nino
02/06/2018, 8:52 AMI know
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ebonet
02/06/2018, 8:53 AMso how does this affect backend? it was platform specific either way
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nino
02/06/2018, 8:53 AMah, I get your point @ebonet
nino
02/06/2018, 8:53 AMI had the uri example in mind
nino
02/06/2018, 8:53 AMbut it’s about the android uri
nino
02/06/2018, 8:53 AMso thanks for the clarification!
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ebonet
02/06/2018, 8:55 AMnp 😄
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