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Program for Android with Java and Kotlin

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Program for Android with Java and Kotlin

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- [Instructor] The Android application framework is built around the Java Developer Kit, or JDK. Recent versions of Java use OpenJDK, an open-source implementation of Java from Oracle. When you're working in Java, you have to pay attention to what syntax is supported. For example, Java 5 and 6 syntax is pretty much supported universally, and most Java 7 syntax works as well. A lot of Java 8 syntax features will work when your project is configured for it, such as Lambda expressions and method references and so on, but when you work with Kotlin, as I'll be doing throughout this series, you don't have to worry about any of that. All Kotlin syntax is supported in Android, and then it simply becomes a question of which APIs and libraries are available when you're working in Android. The Android SDK includes implementations of many standard Java APIs. These typically start with java., and include things like java.lang and java.text and java.util. And there are also many APIs and libraries…

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