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What is the easiest server-side platform for Android Java developers to learn?

4th December 2012

My answer to What is the easiest server-side platform for Android Java developers to learn? on Quora

Take a look at the Play framework—last time I looked (a couple of years ago) it seemed to be the most instant productive and sane way of doing server-side Java.

Posted 4th December 2012 at 5:10 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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