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2021-08-05 - Summer Project: Bearing + Kotlin

Category DEV

Kotlin / rig4k is a good potential idea but really a project based around GDoc downloads & APIs sounds like a painful thing to do in PA. It requires internet connection (duh). But also GDoc APIs are notorious to change each time I look at them, requiring even more research -- that is there’s the issue that I’d have to learn the “idiomatic kotlin” and the “idiomatic gdoc API” at the same time.

So instead, what about Bearing? It could be a good Kotlin candidate:

  • No new API learning curve. The usual Android stuff, just done as Kotlin.
  • Can focus on Kotlin syntax & such.
  • One option would be to rewrite the whole app in Kotlin, however… what’s the benefit?
  • Can just mix with the current version and add new stuff in Kotlin.

That is the addition would be a new fragment or activity for a mark list management, which is neatly self-contained.


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