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[โ€“] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 10 points 18 hours ago

I'll let others correct me, but I think Kotlin is the way, considering that most examples in the docs are in Kotlin.

That said, I don't know how helpful it is to have learned Java before Kotlin, and knowing Java might be useful if you ever encounter codebases that haven't migrated to Kotlin yet.

[โ€“] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago

You need both. If you want to start as fast as possible, learn Kotlin first.