Introduction
Android apps are a fascinating piece of technology. The apps developed on Android have worldwide appeal and audience. However, that has posed serious challenges for developers. The challenge is with updating APIs, platforms, and varied device capabilities. For example, if you are an Android developer, you have to rely on Java 6 if you want to support all API levels in Android. Java 6 is obsolete now, so much so that even its successor, Java 7, is kind of obsolete today. There was a great need for modern language for Android, which has built a trillion dollar industry around it and has influenced billions of lives. True, we have Java 8 now, but we can only use it if we are developing Android apps for API level 24 and above. However, ...
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