I am using Webview in kotlin.

# android

[chanjungskim]

I am using Webview in kotlin.

[ephemient]

https://kotlinlang.org/community/slackccugl.html

Please do not ping or mention someone directly to get your questions answered, specially project owners, whether the project is Kotlin or other, unless they specifically indicate that you can.

[ephemient]

Also see the community guidelines and this channel's description. Even if you are using Kotlin, your problem is not a Kotlin issue.

[chanjungskim]

This is android channel.

[chanjungskim]

And I might solve this issue with kotlin.

[ephemient]

This channel is specifically for issues with using Kotlin with Android, not for Android problems which can arise whether you are using Kotlin or Java.

[chanjungskim]

I use Webview with kotlin, and I got that issue.

[chanjungskim]

If you search WebView in this channel, you see a lot of them.

[chanjungskim]

I added kotlin code in that question.

[Chrimaeon]

@chanjungskim you have an issue with the Webview and OpenGL and not with Kotlin. So this question is definitely not the correct channel. 😅

[chanjungskim]

Okay. So, That means, I can't do anything with Kotlin. Thank you for the answer 🙂

[andylamax]

No @chanjungskim that does not mean you can't do anything with Kotlin, it means, even if you were not using kotlin, you would face the exact same problem

[chanjungskim]

Well... How can I face this issue in other languages? And I just wanted to solve it with Kotlin.

[ephemient]

Your problem is not caused by Kotlin nor an interaction between Kotlin and Android. If you wrote the same app in Java, you would have the same issue. Thus it is not a Kotlin problem and you should ask on a general Android forum instead. This whole Slack workspace is specific to Kotlin.

[chanjungskim]

I see. WebView is implemented in Java. Okay. Thank you. I got it now.

[andylamax]

You still don't get it though (although you claim that you do). The fact that WebView is implemented in Java, doesn't make it a 'Not Kotlin'. Even if it was implemented in kotlin, your question would still be in a not kotlin category.

If you are really interested in genuinely understanding what a 'Not Kotlin' post is, what fits this slack, ask (me or anyone in here) for a detailed explanation

[chanjungskim]

Yes, I am interested. I checked other questions in #android. And many of their question have 'Not Kotlin' emoji. Then, what is 'Yes Kotlin'? It's android channel. So, maybe there must be some specific android libraries that I can ask here. I don't know. Can you clarify my vague understanding?

[chanjungskim]

Maybe it's channel for putting 'Not Kotlin' to show android is not kotlin.

[chanjungskim]

there are compose, flow, etc. other channels, So, Is this channel for that? just for android developer?

[Ciaran Sloan]

@chanjungskim although the channel is named #android, its within the Kotlin workspace. This channel is for kotlin specific issues, within the android ecosystem. In other words issues that evolve around the kotlin language, and not general android issues that just happen to be written in kotlin

[andylamax]

In very easy terms @chanjungskim.

Most problems/queries are addressable by any language, be it kotlin, java or even javascript. Problems like why a library x is not behaving as expected (even when the library is written in kotlin or being consumed by kotlin) is not specific to kotlin at all. That problem is specific to that library.

The same can be said for any feature (say feature x).

It might be hard to know the difference (what is Yes kotlin and what is No kotlin) at first, but the easy way to understand the difference is, if you can have the same problem with another language, then your problem is really not kotlin specific. Hence it is not a kotlin problem at all.

So then, what can be considered 'Yes Kotlin'?
• Questions about kotlin syntax (to be asked in #getting-started)
• Questions about kotlin stdlib (to be asked in #stdlib)
• Question about kotlin compiler (to be asked in #compiler)
• General kotlin behaviours that should work in anywhere but don't work (to be asked in #android )
• Interoperability of kotlin with another android specific libs
• e.t.c

[chanjungskim]

I will note that thanks for the explaination and now I got it a bit