[GTALUG] Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

[William Park]

Answer:
    Learn Swift for Apple/iOS.
    Learn Kotlin for Google/Android.

Documentation:
    - online:	https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/
    - PDF:	https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-docs.pdf
-- 
William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>


On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 07:27:01PM -0500, Marc Lijour wrote:
> Check Kotlin, it's official and under an Apache 2.0 license
> 
> Great article (last May) with reasons why Kotlin is a good choice + code
> examples;
> https://medium.com/@magnus.chatt/why-you-should-totally-switch-to-kotlin-c7bbde9e10d5
> 
> 
> Since then, Google made Kotlin the official language for Android.
> https://developer.android.com/kotlin/index.html
> 
> https://kotlinlang.org/
> 
> 2017-12-09 17:56 GMT-05:00 William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I never understood tablet and phone apps market.  But, through recent
> > exposure at work, my interest has gone up a notch.
> >
> > If I want to develop some app for iPad and iPhone, then I would start
> > learning Swift.  It's new, and there may be opportunity for apps and
> > jobs for early adopters.
> >
> > What do I learn, if I want to develop Android apps?  Can I use C, and
> > more importantly, is there C SDK for Android?
> > --
> > William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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