[stevenwoo]

I don't know Kotlin but I have done both IOS and Android programming and they both have their plusses and minuses compared to each other. I am not a superstar programmer like Yegge, learned IOS first and Android seemed really weird coming from that background but I eventually grokked it and converted existing IOS app to Android, and next few apps we did I wrote it for Android first.

One key obstacle for me to get over is that some of the stuff one learns by attempting to learn through Google's documentation and copying their examples is pretty horrible in a non-toy app. IIRC I had to learn this the hard way by making an app and finding it getting geometrically harder in complexity when adding features one by one with image downloading async tied to activities and message passing from service to activity tied to message number/activity number.