As a python developer, what language is the easiest and closest when it comes to building mobile apps? - eviltoast
  • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Python has never been a big language for app development… no idea why you would call it old school.

    To answer op, Swift for iOS; Kotlin on Android.

    • nieceandtows@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Thanks. Yeah, I wasn’t looking for python based frameworks, but rather other languages that are at least somewhat similar and easier to learn/transition to.

    • Rusty Shackleford@programming.dev
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      8 months ago

      I know I should just look this up, but I’ll ask anyway.

      Back in 2013, in grad school, I remember we used Objective C for iOS and Java for Android. Can I still build compatible apk’s and iOS packages using these older language choices respectively for modern mobile OS’s or am I a dinosaur and need to get with the times (swift and kotlin)?

      • roanutil_@programming.dev
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        8 months ago

        For iOS you can still use Objective C, but there are additions to platform frameworks and whole new frameworks that are Swift first. I don’t really know how hard it would be to use those APIs from Objective C. Swift is certainly the default going forward.

        I don’t work on Android but my understanding is that Java hasn’t and isn’t going anywhere on Android. Kotlin is supposed to be great but I haven’t heard mention of Java being dropped.