I started the official Android course with Kotlin and was very pleased with the first unit which went over the basics of Kotlin. It was very beginner friendly, written well, and a lot of reminders and general hand holding. I also have some prior coding experience.
The second unit on Android was the complete opposite experience. It was written by a non-native English speaker and the instructions were dry and not very clear.
I now understand why some people warned that learning Kotlin means fewer resources to learn from compared to Java where there are many to choose from. So it’s made me consider: should I switch to a Java Android course with the hope that the Android portion of the course will be better developed? Or should I just stick with the Kotlin course because it will be difficult either way?
Also, has anyone else new to coding/android development had success learning with the official Kotlin Android course?
Also it might be specific to that particular course you’re doing, try learning it a bit from other resources and see if it helps.
For me also AI has been very helpful. At times I’ve been doing some really sketchy code because I couldn’t find any good guidance for those areas, so asking AI something like “how do I implement this piece of code in a better way and why it would be better that way?” was really helpful, since it was pointing out my mistakes and unveiling some concepts that I could search specifically (and again: some of them were not properly described in the official documentation).