Get rid of Java in favor of Kotlin

[artem-zinnatullin]

[williamwebb]

If this project is meant to showcase best practices for quality Android development i think it would be silly to replace the language that the vast majority of Android developers are using( not to mention is officially supported ). At least bases on my vastly uniformed understanding of current kotlin utilization levels now i believe it would vastly diminish the value of the project.

I am however fully in favor of having portions or even full sections being in kotlin.

[lenguyenthanh]

I agree with @artem-zinnatullin, using Kotlin is one of the best practice for Android developers now. But we should keep Java as a separate branch.

I'd like to help you on this issue, Artem. Please tell me if I can help you anything.

[artem-zinnatullin]

Well, I definitely won't be able to support 2 versions of the app in different languages…

At least bases on my vastly uniformed understanding of current kotlin utilization levels now i believe it would vastly diminish the value of the project.

http://artemzin.com/blog/state-of-kotlin-as-main-language-for-android-project/

@lenguyenthanh thanks for suggesting your help, I'll ping you if something will be required besides code review!

[williamwebb]

I've read your article :). I meant utilization within the Android development community, not the viability of the language.

[artem-zinnatullin]

Well, quality of the code is part of quality matters :)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 6:15 PM, William Webb [email protected] wrote:

I've read your article :). I meant utilization within the Android development community, not the viability of the language.

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[lenguyenthanh]

@artem-zinnatullin always ready to help :). It's hard to convince people here to use Kotlin :(.

[danielgomezrico]

@lenguyenthanh you can add kotlin by parts, I mean, kotlin is 100% interoperable with java, so you can have both files inside same project and compile them, use java from kotlin and kotlin from java, and have a low footprint inside the project because of Kotlin itself

[serj-lotutovici]

You can also enable kotlin for functional and integration tests and then move to other parts of the app.

[adamint]

Hey, say this was still open. Is this still wanted?

[artem-zinnatullin]

Yes