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Android now supports Kotlin

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Re: Android now supports Kotlin

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Post by Twirrim »

0xFFC wrote: post #4

Is this official? Edit: sorry, I completely forgot googleio is today, and i couldn't believe this kind of news comminng ftom non google domain.

You'd know the answer if you'd taken the < 1 minute to read the article. It was mentioned in the opening paragraph.

Re: Android now supports Kotlin

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Post by geodel »

bobsam wrote: post #3

Was hoping for golang but this is good too

I think Go is never going to be officially supported on Android. Dart, though, seems more likely as it is Java like VM based language.

Go is going to have better support on Fuchsia OS from Google.

Re: Android now supports Kotlin

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Post by gecko »

tomc1985 wrote: post #2

Funny, I was messing around with Kotlin for the first time last night. So far, the language seems well-structured and I really like that one gets all of Java's ecosystem without actually having to write java. (Also, "override fun" just sounds hilarious. Bwaha!) Throw in TornadoFX and Gluon Scene Builder (formerly of Oracle) and you're spinning up high-quality cross-platform GUIs faster than Atom, with a visual editor…

Is JavaFX also included in the "safe" parts of Java (i.e., in an Oracle-sanctioned GPL VM)? I know there are some open-source versions, but Oracle's trigger-happy lawsuit button on Java these days has made me nervous to poke.

Re: Android now supports Kotlin

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Post by deskamess »

tomc1985 wrote: post #2

Funny, I was messing around with Kotlin for the first time last night. So far, the language seems well-structured and I really like that one gets all of Java's ecosystem without actually having to write java. (Also, "override fun" just sounds hilarious. Bwaha!) Throw in TornadoFX and Gluon Scene Builder (formerly of Oracle) and you're spinning up high-quality cross-platform GUIs faster than Atom, with a visual editor…

New to Kotlin + ecosystem... So can you build Android UI's with Scene Builder? I see notes about it working with Gluon Mobile which appears to be a cross platform mobile library.

Re: Android now supports Kotlin

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Post by faitswulff »

monkmartinez wrote: post #15

So where is the best place to learn Kotlin? I am very interested as Jetbrains is also working on Kotlin to native translation. [1] [1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/kotlinnative-tech-...

They link to resources at the bottom:

> For more information on getting started with the programming language, check out How to start using Kotlin[0] and the Koans tutorial[1].

[0]: This one's actually broken in the article, but: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/kotlin-android.html

[1]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/koans.html

Re: Android now supports Kotlin

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Post by tomc1985 »

deskamess wrote: post #17
tomc1985 wrote: post #2

Funny, I was messing around with Kotlin for the first time last night. So far, the language seems well-structured and I really like that one gets all of Java's ecosystem without actually having to write java. (Also, "override fun" just sounds hilarious. Bwaha!) Throw in TornadoFX and Gluon Scene Builder (formerly of Oracle) and you're spinning up high-quality cross-platform GUIs faster than Atom, with a visual editor…

New to Kotlin + ecosystem... So can you build Android UI's with Scene Builder? I see notes about it working with Gluon Mobile which appears to be a cross platform mobile library.

Not concerned about Android at the time, I was looking for a desktop app toolkit.

Now that you mention it mobile support seems to be in flux: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20860931/is-it-possible-t...

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