For years, Java was the one official language for Android development ... what it can teach us about Kotlin. First, you may notice that you declare classes using class just as you would in ...

Google's Android team announced first-class support for Kotlin last week during a keynote at the annual Google I/O conference. Android developers were already able to use Kotlin through a plug-in, but ...

Kotlin is one of two official languages used in Android development and is Google’s ... but rather it is part of an Android class (TextView). That is to say that Kotlin itself doesn’t support ...

Google just announced that it will officially support Kotlin on Android as a “first-class” language ... which is the default language for Android development, Kotlin is a language that ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely ... relaxed Java’s requirement that functions be class members. In Kotlin, functions may be declared ...

Since then, Google took this a step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing Android apps in 2019 — and while plenty of developers still use Java, Kotlin is quickly becoming ...

Kotlin is all the rage now that it has been deemed a first-class programming language for developing ... As I occasionally dabble in Android development (using React Native), for which Visual Studio ...

Google has launched Android Basics in Kotlin, a program for beginner developers that teaches them how to build Android apps. Kotlin has become one of the fastest growing languages on GitHub ...

Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin’s primary sponsor ...

Kotlin may even change how Java is used on the server, the company said: “In short, Android developers without Kotlin skills are at risk of being seen as dinosaurs very soon.” In September ...