Kotlin in Industry - GDK x DSC Semarang 2018

What is Kotlin, history, adoption, benefit and Pro Tips!

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1. Kotlin in Industry By : Ahmad Arif Faizin Indonesia Mobile-Apps Academy GDK x DSC
3. What is Kotlin?
4. Fact Today
5. Fact Today “It’s been one of the fastest growing languages in the JVM world and people are jumping ship from other JVM languages like e.g. Scala.” https://discuss.kotlinlang.org
6. History 2011 - Created by a small JetBrains team in St. Petersburg, Russia 2016 - The official v1.0 was released 2017 - Google officially backed Kotlin as the official language for Android
7. Kotlin adoption • Uber uses Kotlin for building internal tools • Gradle introduced Kotlin as their language for writing build scripts • Atlassian powers their Trello on Android with Kotlin • Pinterest has incorporated Kotlin in their application with an average use of 150M users a month
8. Personal Experience
9. Benefit • Fast coding • Cleaner code • Inteporable with existing Java library • Bye Bye NPE (Null Pointer Exception) • Convert Java to Kotlin
10. Pro Tips • Use @Parcelize • Add Android KTX (Kotlin Extension) • Nice to try using Kotlin + Rx + Lambda • Bye Bye NPE (Null Pointer Exception)
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