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Kotlin: A better way to Java

As presented at the 2019 Google Developer Group Cloud Next Conference in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Transcript

  1. Kotlin A better way to Java Atiq Ur Rehman @TheMaxCoder

  2. Atiq Ur Rehman - Freelance Android Developer @TheMaxCoder

  3. Introduction Developed by JetBrains - Team behind intelliJ IDEA

  4. Introduction Developed by JetBrains - Team behind intelliJ IDEA It

    was developed with Java developers in mind

  5. Introduction First-Class language for Android Apps - I/O 2017

  6. Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first

  7. None

  8. https://appdevelopermagazine.com/why-kotlin-language-use-is-skyrocketing/

  9. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019/#top-paying-technologies

  10. Over 50% of professional Android developers now use Kotlin

  11. Adopting Kotlin

  12. Concise?

  13. JAVA KOTLIN

  14. Safe?

  15. None

  16. Java Interoperable

  17. Language Features • Extension function • High order function •

    Default and named arguments

  18. Adopting Kotlin • Professional Growth

  19. None
  20. None

  21. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019/#top-paying-technologies

  22. Adopting Kotlin • Professional Growth • Java will become obsolete

    in coming years

  23. Resources

  24. Developing Android Apps with Kotlin https://eu.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-kotlin--ud9012

  25. Android Kotlin Fundamentals

  26. Kotlin for Java developers - Coursera

  27. Google Samples • Github - https://github.com/googlesamples

  28. Podcast - Talking Kotlin • http://talkingkotlin.com/

  29. Newsletter • http://talkingkotlin.com/

  30. Invest in yourself

  31. Thank You! Slack Community of 150+ Pakistani Android Developers from

    all over the world http://bit.ly/androiddevs-pakistan TheMaxCoderr