What would you say is the best way to start with Android development if I know Java? Kotlin?

Start a project to understand the following things:
1. Put elements on a page
2. How to handle actions from user
3. How to transition to another page
4. How to move an element, modify its properties, etc
5. How to send a request to a web service and handle it asynchronously, learn UI thread and threading
6. Use an async task to send a request for an image while displaying a loading wheel then display the image after it’s done downloading

And that’s probably really good for a starter.

brainfuck of course!

@growling Hey thanks :) I'll most definitely go by that list ;)

@heyheni Don't even... 😅

As long as you are able to understand how Android works as @growling said, it doesn't matter the syntax but sadly native android developers are going to a dead end after the cross platform thing. So sad am now migrating from android to backend engineer.

@Mba3gar Yeah, I've looked into cross platform with React Native and such, and even PWAs. Web is what I do. But I felt like I would get a lot more flexibility with pure Java/Kotlin, and also, I'm guessing it would be even quicker to develop than with a web stack. And then there's performance as well, of course.

@Null0x90 Hired as fullstack web developer, so I think I'm fine thank you ;) I'm doing it for fun :)

@Null0x90 Depends on the place of living. Where I'm from Kotlin is used for most of the new projects but Java knowledge is a must for legacy.

I say, use Xamarin and C#

@PJesus Xamarin is dead. React Native is best when it comes to cross-platform. Maybe Flutter in the future.

@PJesus @TheKarlo95 Wait, you mean that people actually used C# for Android dev?

@TheKarlo95 kkk do funny but Xamarin is alive and it goes well

https://github.com/xamarin/...

Now tell me, about Reactive Native(RN). If it's so good and "native". Why Facebook, the company that created the RN , can't do a good app? Look the Facebook app, it's so heavy and slowly.

@ScriptCoded Some people do. It's CroosPlataform(Windows[UWP],iOS,MacOS, Linux,Android,Tizen) and the output it's a native app! It's beautiful.

@PJesus Hmm, interesting