Google has released Android Studio 3.0 with support for the Kotlin programming language and new tools to speed up app development and debugging. By Matt Adams October 25, 2017 ...

Google has been using Kotlin for Android apps since 2017 and the pair have jointly supported the Kotlin language through the Kotlin Foundation since 2018. In 2019, Google's Android team adopted ...

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.

Google is encouraging all Android developers to use Kotlin after its 2019 announcement that Android development will from here on be "Kotlin-first" as opposed to Java, which was historically the ...

It’s 100 percent interoperable with Java, which until now was Google’s primary language for writing Android apps (besides C++). The company also today said that it will launch a foundation for ...

Android Studio 3.0 will support Kotlin right out of the box, making it easy to get started with the new language. The way that the language is supported allows you to gradually roll in new features.

It was only two years ago, at I/O 2017, that Google announced support for Kotlin in its Android Studio IDE.That came as a bit of a surprise, given that Java had long been the preferred language ...