Great! Do you need help for enabling it? On mar 26 set 2017, 20:15 Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Thanks for enabling this Sebastian! > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Nicholas Alexander < > nalexan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Sebastian Kaspari <skasp...@mozilla.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey all (firefox-focus-public and mobile-firefox-dev), >>> >>> We just started a new Focus/Klar for Android sprint and I intent to >>> enable Kotlin support: >>> https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/975 >>> >>> Kotlin itself is not new. But since last I/O it is now an official >>> first-class language to develop Android applications - support by the >>> Android team(s). >>> >>> I do not want to write much about the language itself. Some good links >>> to get started are: >>> - https://developer.android.com/kotlin/index.html >>> - https://kotlinlang.org/ >>> - >>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ReS3ep-hjxWA8kZi0YqDbEhCqTt29hG8P44aA9W0DM8/edit >>> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1RVYt2QKQE >>> - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbF8Q8LxAJs >>> >>> Some of the reasons why I would like to use it in Focus: >>> - (1) It can be used side-by-side with Java code. You can call Java code >>> from Kotlin and Kotlin code from Java as if it would be the same language. >>> This makes it pretty nice to gradually introduce new code in Kotlin. >>> - (2) Because of (1) I do not intent to migrate our existing Java code >>> to Kotlin. The existing code is tested and it would be a waste of time to >>> replace it without the need to do it. Of course migrating existing code >>> could happen as part of writing new code or fixing bugs. >>> - (3) Getting started with Kotlin in Focus is simple and >>> straight-forward - compared to Fennec. >>> >> >> Big +1 from me for figuring out if Kotlin is worth the fuss! >> >> Nick >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mobile-firefox-dev mailing list >> mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >> >> > > > -- > Susheel Daswani > Senior Mobile Engineering Manager > phone / text: (415) 218-7259 > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >
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