The android app development space is a pretty complex one. While Java was the main language for app development for a long time, it all changed after Google started to officially support the ...

This time, Google is not using Kotlin as a base for the entire OS, but just as an alternative to writing Android apps. "It’s clear: Java (on Android) is dying," the Realm team explains.

Google’s latest recommendation follows the company’s May 2017 endorsement of Kotlin as a supported language for Android development alongside Java. Since then, Kotlin has become the most ...

By late 2017, software quality company TIOBE made waves and headlines when it predicted that Kotlin would replace Java for Android app development. Hype aside, following are a few facts.

In September 2016, Kotlin accounted for 5.1 percent of Android development versus 94.9 percent for Java, Realm’s data shows. A year later, it’s 14.3 percent for Kotlin versus 85.7 percent for ...

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 is ...

Kotlin has been endorsed by Google as a language for developing Android apps. Kotlin is now used by over 60% of professional Android developers and is an alternative to building apps with Java ...

It is an exciting time to be an Android developer. A big reason behind this excitement is the official support that Google has extended to the programming language Kotlin. Kotlin after all, ...

Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.