Case Study: Introducing Kotlin into a Real Android Product
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Case study of introducing Kotlin into a real Android product (the SmartNews app). Covers motivations for adopting Kotlin, migration experience in an existing Android project, interoperability with Java, and practical lessons learned during the rollout.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18Agenda and app
- 2:21Kotlin adoption
- 3:50Reasons for Kotlin
- 6:02Kotlin timeline
- 7:26Gradual adoption
- 9:09Benefits after Kotlin
- 12:04Kotlin challenges
- 15:44Snapshot library issues
- 16:06ButterKnife in Kotlin
- 18:34Dagger and data binding
- 20:04Java-Kotlin interop
- 24:05Null safety in interop
- 28:21Summary and outlook
- 29:11Q&A
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