It is not completely obvious from this example, but Kotlin has relaxed Java’s requirement that functions be class members. In Kotlin, functions may be declared at top level in a file ...

Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s ...

You can grasp the benefits of data classes by comparing the Java code outlined in Listing 11 to the equivalent Kotlin code in Listing 12. Using methods generated by Eclipse, the full Java ...

Is there a Java class that you’ve always felt was missing some useful functionality for Android development? With Kotlin it is possible to quickly and easily add functionality to existing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google just announced that it will officially support Kotlin on Android as a “first-class” language ... developer tool — is based on. Like Java, which is the default language for Android ...

Kotlin continues to grow in popularity among Java developers, a new report from Snyk revealed. In its annual JVM ecosystem report it found that Kotlin is now the second most popular JVM language.

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large ...