Hi everyone, I’m sure this question has been asked...
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nawar
02/19/2017, 3:03 PMHi everyone, I’m sure this question has been asked several times in here (for the life of me I couldn’t find it). I’m embarking on a quest to build an Android app for the first time and my Java knowledge is very rusty and rudimentary as over the years I got spoiled with dynamic languages–read Python and PHP–and easy to grasp languages like Swift. Is Kotlin mature enough to use for the development of an entire Android project. If that’s the case, how straight forward it is to integrate other 3rd party Android Java libraries & SDKs into the code mix? It would be great to get some advice on this as it’s a huge time investment and requires a steep learning curve. Thanks a lot.
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benleggiero
02/19/2017, 5:14 PMnawar: As an experienced Java and Android developer, I can say with confidence that Kotlin is a wonderful alternative, definitely mature enough for production. If you like Swift, Kotlin is a very close alternative!
benleggiero
02/19/2017, 5:16 PMIt's also 100% interoperable with all Java bytecode, including .java files already in your project, as well as jars and other precompiled libraries. All of it can be used with Kotlin and vice versa.
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nawar
02/19/2017, 5:18 PMGreat to know, so I assume for using other jars is like referencing Objective-C libraries from within Swift.
nawar
02/19/2017, 5:18 PMWould be along the same lines.
nawar
02/19/2017, 5:19 PMThanks Ben for the tip, I’ve been trying to discern which direction to follow with Android development. Any documentation/book you recommend to jump start Kotlin with Android, I started to skim through Antonio Leiva’s book about Kotlin for Android.
nawar
02/19/2017, 5:19 PMIt would be nice to get some seasoned insight on this 🙂
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benleggiero
02/19/2017, 5:29 PMActually much easier than ObjC and Swift; it's just a regular
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nawar
02/19/2017, 5:50 PMAwesome! Thanks a lot Ben 🙂
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benleggiero
02/19/2017, 5:53 PMNo prob! Feel free to DM me if you have more questions!
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nawar
02/19/2017, 5:55 PMI’ll do 🙂
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