Advancing android development with the kotlin language
summary
Kotlin promises concrete gains for Android: extension functions let Java types gain new methods without runtime cost, and inline functions eliminate the tiny lambda allocations so generated bytecode matches hand‑written Java. Nullability is a first‑class type, reducing NPEs, and the Anko library shows a built UI builder that compiles faster than XML. The compiler targets Java 6 bytecode and ships interop annotations; the language hits beta two days before the recording.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:16Why do we need advancing?
- 6:09Syntax Crash Course
- 9:19Extension Functions
- 22:00Higher-Order Functions
- 30:31Extension Function Expressions
