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Tloewald on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Swift will be open source later this year”

> Why would I ever care about Go for Android when I can write apps in Kotlin

Power consumption.

pjmlp on June 9, 2015 | [–]

Since Android Java is compiled to native code on installation time, I don't see any benefit using Go in terms of power consumption.

fourmyle on June 9, 2015 | [–]

I guarantee you could write a more power efficient app using the Android SDK versus Go in the NDK.

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