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0 pointsandybak8y ago0 comments

And this paragraph:

> I was first in line to throw the Android book at the wall and give up last summer, but now with Kotlin I'm finding Android programming is, dare I say it -- enjoyable? I think this suggests that Android's "bad" APIs weren't all that bad to begin with, but rather that Java has been masking Android's neat functionality with a bunch of Java-y cruft.

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cromwellian8y ago

I don't think it's Java fault per se, just the API design. Java8 streams, RxJava, BufferKnife injection, Guava, etc are pretty nice to use, especially in combination with Java8. There's no async/await, but if you use ReactiveX, you don't really need it.

Kotlin looks very nice, I'm just pointing out that if the Android View/Fragment lifecycle design is an issue, language design isn't the cause or solution, and most likely, you will need a middleware/facade to mitigate it.

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0 pointsandybak8y ago0 comments

And this paragraph:

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cromwellian8y ago

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