Which language would you choose if you were an Android app developer?

What if Google had a dispute with Jetbrains and again there is a new language, say, Klingon....

Kotlin definitely will become the main language, but Android developer should have the ability to read Java code

Your break down of things is always interesting and so helpful! Thanks!

Omg this is so cool learning about this. I'm in mobile application development for Android and this is literally the most helpful thing I've seen in the past 2 weeks. Thank you for this!!!

Def. Kotlin. I've been developing Android apps for five years, give or take. I remember the transition being hard but once Ive got used to Kotlin, I would not wanna go back to Java.

Very neat explanations. Also I like it the brevity of videos not making them too long.

Java was my second programming language, I learned oop on it in school, never really liked it over C++, started learning kotlin a few days ago and it looks to me like it is just Java but thinned with some python. I didn't develope an android app before, but I will now using Kotlin

Been jumping between these for over a month. Good Work, thanks for clarifying my doubts. I think, will be going with kotlin.

World : Kotlin Vs Java Meanwhile Python : Launch the PyoDroid module

Keen to know more about your Thesis on Android security as I'm interested in security as well.

Those 60 people who disliked are from Oracle, they just lost the case and probably Google Android support for the future.

This was the first video I clicked on, when researching the subject, and answered so many of my questions. This was well put together, Thank you. :)

Thank you for the video. looking forward to learn Kotlin, a transition from C/C++ to Kotlin. Hopefully it will be smooth.

I'm in that transition right now, currently converting one of my apps to Kotlin !!

Thank you so much man. I am new to all of this and i was worried about which one of these i should learn. I was already started on Kotlin and this has swept away all my worries.

Thanks for your opinion man, really appreciate your unbiased thoughts, considering you've done some app dev in Java. 👍😃

Another well explained video. Currently I use Java since I have not learned Kotlin (yet). Also, in android studio there is a way to convert Java directly to Kotlin. I have not tried it yet but might help with the learning transition :)

i love Java and it's the first programming language i started with . but now im learning kotlin

Your explanation are very clear! Brief but brings out all the key points. Thanks!

Thanks Sam, great analysis!

Simple and yet Informative. Thanks !

Definitely very helpful, thank you so much.

4:28 - Extension functions are relatively useful but they are syntactic sugar, which becomes immediately obvious when trying to reference Kotlin code from Java; it is the equivalent of Project Lombok's @ExtensionMethod feature. Either way, you aren't actually _extending_ code in the traditional sense; you aren't doing the equivalent of applying a trait onto a pre-defined struct in Rust. 4:42 - This code example actually shows a particular gripe I have with Kotlin: it's so utterly obsessed with eradicating verbosity that it makes code _more_ difficult to read. Pretend for a second that you weren't learned in Kotlin: where would you suppose "length" comes from? Or "get()" for that matter? What scope are those functions located in? Is that even a method definition? 5:12 - Data classes are not exclusive to Kotlin. Records were admittedly a preview feature at the time this video was made, but even before then, there were ways to create data classes, like Project Lombok's @Data feature. 5:31 - Type inference is not exclusive to Kotlin.. indeed, full var support was added in Java 11 back in 2018. It can admittedly only be used for variables, not fields, but the video explicitly states "variables". It also goes without saying that the example you gave of why type inference is a good thing is actually an example of why type inference is a bad thing. If you're changing return types, your code is probably going to break more than just because of previous type declarations.

never seen you before and one video did it, I'm a new sub and I'll be looking forward to seeing more of your videos

super helpful, i was on the fence but now im decided. super thanks.

Thanx a lot and i just decided that i'll start learning kotlin

You just won yourself a new subscriber.

Thought you were just a memer. You actually know what you're talking about. Very interesting, I subbed.

It was a great video, especially the way you built the whole context before going on main topic #respect from India

Perfectly explained and exactly what I needed. Thank you.

You just opened my brain and put new insights into it. Thanks a lot!

That null safe feature is a huge plus

3:57 I'll miss you null pointer exception.

Well put. Thank you.

Great video! Loved the content

was so helpful. tnx alot!

Just in the right time, Thank you so much

But since Java 9, type inference is there. Also, Java 15 and above has record which is more data classes than kotlin data-class or even lombok getters and setters (purely immutable)

Well, as a cs student whose only proficient-level programming language is C, let me say that this is a great video! As I learn more about programming in general, I begin wanting to jump to more ambitious projects, and among these there is app development. I've been wanting to learn Kotlin for some time, since I heard it was kinda based on Java but with neat features of modern day programming languages. I feel like I'm better informed now. I also appreciate that you evaluate this objectively, with pros and cons of the two languages and not favouring any over the other, and yet give your opinion so that we have a reference in mind. It's something I wasn't expecting to find in this kinds of videos. Given I'm a bit familiar with Java, I'll give it a shot one of these days. I can already feel I'm gonna have fun. Thanks!

Kotlin is more of a political battle between Google and Oracle than a real Android development improvement. I can understand Apple moving away from Objective-C since it was terrible to work with. However, moving from Java to whatever else new language does not add up, technically.

Great video, it is easy for the novice to follow along.

5:11 This is what records where created for in Java SE 14 which was released on March 17, 2020. So just 4 days after this video was posted.

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I agree with you on this. I have been using Java to write apps for a while. I have about 2 years experience with Java for Android. I just learnt Kotlin about 4 months ago and I really love it. I'm already preparing to release my 3rd app i wrote in Kotlin. Kotlin is really good and easy to learn if you have enough experience in Java.

thank you so much for the video

Please do a similar video of GO programming language.

idk why i laughed so hard at the " C (with classes)... that was really lame" part lollll

Kool video, gr8t job

Kotlin will be the main language and most company start making on kotlin :)

Thanks for explaining with proper reasons.

Thank you, this video was a game changer for my.

Definitely learned a lot watching this. I’m a recent CS grad currently job searching for both SE and Android dev jobs. Just made the decision to focus on Android dev instead. And enhance my development and architecture understanding/ experience. If anyone knows any startups (even for SE rolls 👀) looking to hire, please leave a comment

What about Python libraries like Kivy or BeeWare? Or cross platform options like React?

great analysis !

I just wanted to comment on the part where you said that Google may stop supporting Java, and I highly disagree. Most Android apps and parts of the OS itself since its inception are still written in Java and no one is seriously going to re-write all that code in Kotlin. That being said, Kotlin is interoperable with Java and you can write Java code in Kotlin, so you can write new apps in Kotlin, but as far as stop supporting Java, that won't happen in the near future. The same thing can be said with Objective-C. Parts of iOS and tons of apps since it's inception are still written in Objective-C and no one in Apple is going to re-write millions of lines of code in Swift just because it's a more modern language. Even many of the libraries and frameworks that iOS developers use is still written in Objective-C.

This is one of the best explanations I seen so far! I was honestly overwhelmed by all the opinions till I watched this video! Cheers man!

U can use var x = 10 in Java too

Thank you so much!

No semicolon at the end of the statement? // whyyyy? =)

200 likes man it crossed 7K

I've studied Kotlin and it's a really awesome language just like you described on video above it's nice features that allow us to create new methods without needing to create a whole class. Without doubt Kotlin's go-to language!

Thank you very much for your course.

Can self taught developers be employed in mobile or is that more in the web dev space

Currently learning Kotlin. I must say it’s forgiving and has a lot of safeguards.

I write apps in iOS Swift and they’re fast and it’s great. Now, I’m learning Kotlin so I can migrate my iOS apps to Android. We’ll see how this goes.

5:18 java added data classes recently actually there called records

That's really a great content bro.

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I personally would recommend to learn kotlin, even if you're good at java. Because kotlin is in my opinion so much better suited for android development than java. Coroutines alone would make me switch to kotlin.

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Which one would be better for Smart Contracts?

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Is it ok to learn kotlin if I don't know anything about java. Or should I start from java then switch the only language I have learned is c++

So Kotlin is like, "What if we took Java and added all the really good and cool C# features?"

Java14 has record type which is similar to kotlin's data class.

should i learn kotlin or flutter(as a beginner in the mobile dev industry)? which has more potential?

When I change the datatype of a function, I need to change the way the output is handled anyway so I don't see the point in not having to declare the datatype except not knowing what datatype something is and having bugs like in Javascript where 11+1 is 12 most of the time except when it's "111". Just my opinion on that matter

If I'm just starting to learn Android Development, do I have to learn Java and then Kotlin or immediately learn Kotlin?

can you share the resources where we can learn native app development i found that most of the resources out there are outdated

Thanks a lot your opinion realy help me

thanks , you save my time ❤️

1:31 correction it was not originally forked by google.

Is it possible to read your masters thesis?

All of my apps are converted over to Kotlin, and all new apps that I write are Kotlin from the start. It took a little while to learn the syntax differences between Java and Kotlin, but the differences weren't large enough to make it a difficult transition. Yes, I had to look up things like how to write a switch statement, and even simple things like how to declare a constructor, but the information is readily available if you know what to look for. I think it's much easier to read and write than Java once you're used to it. I agree with your statement that Google is likely to eventually drop support for Java, especially if the lawsuit doesn't end in their favor.

Can we use both for separate projects. There are still plenty of Java programming jobs out there.

Is Kotlin a bit "less robust" than java? Coz it seems it has some safer features but on the other hand you said it could end up being a bit less robust? I would like to know this. Thanks.

This video is interesting and helpful for me. Thanks for uploading 😀😀😀😀

What do you think about flutter ?

I think the exception I got most in Java was NullPointerException.

What are your views on Flutter because Google is pushing flutter in the recent days and flutter is also moving towards web as well as desktop app web development.

honestly what were oracle trying to do

I'm very interested in app development but I feel like, when it comes to choosing a programming language as an African American, do I really wanna pick Kotlin?

google announced it at 2017, not 2019 ;/

I personally don't mind writing extra code in Java, Kotlin's syntax is just weird and a bit harder to read. Maybe I am just used to using Java but that's what I think

For maintaining existing apps company requires employees to work on java. But to new design applications, every company moving toward Koltin.

I really know 70% java, so shell i learn android development ? Please give some advices.

Objective-C was actually a bigger influence on Java than C++.

Might be a bit of a tangent from the focus of the video but should I use Kotlin for Spring Boot?

Java does have type inference, as of Java 10. developer.oracle.com/java/jdk-10-local-variable-type-inference.html