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by jmfayard 3504 days ago
Using kotlin you get a much nicer language right now without any need of Google to switch off its Java API

I doubt it will be officially acknowledged by Google, but hey they never acknowledge third party good things, and the official Android developers docs still tech us to do networking with HttpUrlConnection and threading with asynctask, we moved on to okhttp and retrofit and rxjava anyway