6/12/2023 0 Comments Convert java to kotlinWe started with configuring Kotlin for our app and wrote our first classes. Our entire codebase was in Java, therefore we had the concern if Kotlin could play nicely alongside with Java. Will it cause any problems? If yes, how big are they?.Does it affect the performance and how big is the overhead?.How hard is it to move Java to Kotlin code?.So we wanted to be a part of this revolution and push Kotlin, so that hopefully Google will officially support it soon. For example, Jake Wharton gave a talk in December 2015, that we Android developers are stuck with Java 6 and we needed a revolution like Kotlin. ![]() Our biggest concern in the beginning was that Google did not officially support Kotlin on Android, even though the popularity of Kotlin was already growing. Having cool features like C#, Groovy, and Swift do, and compiling to Java 6 bytecode, which means you can run it on Android, convinced us to take a closer look at Kotlin. It was still a quite new language one year ago and we didn’t have any experience with it. ![]() Others used Lombok to get rid of the boilerplate generated getters and setters.Įven still, using Java 7 with Retrolambda and Lombok was not satisfying for us at mySugr. Some developers were using Retrolambda to ease the pain, which allows you to use Java 8 code with lambda expressions and method references on Java 7, 6 or 5. There is no type inference, lambdas, properties, extension methods, non-nullability, etc. ![]() If you are used to Java 8, C#, Groovy, or Swift, you feel limited with Java 6. ![]() One year ago when developing Android, you were limited to Java 6 with some features of Java 7.
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