[klaaspieter]

It's definitely a good way to get started with learning, but you have to be even more careful that you're not just copying patterns from one app to another.

I had this experience when I started working on Karma's Android app. I basically started out by copying the entire iOS architecture to Java. It helped me get started quickly without having to make too many hard decisions early on, but I did have to rewrite some things after I became more experienced and learned there was a better, more Android idiomatic, way of doing it.

The thing that helped me the most is that I became part of the community. Some of them explained to me why I was wrong and then taught me a better approach.

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"you have to be even more careful that you're not just copying patterns from one app to another" Absolutely. I hope my post didn't convey the opposite. The way I see it is that the designers of the language know more than the (new) developers using it, so it pays to rewrite existing applications in the way in which the language designers intended.