It’s no surprise that Google’s hope is that over time, all Android developers will switch over to Kotlin. “There is still quite a bit of Java still happening on Android,” Ward said. “We ...

With the latest ART 13 update, runtime and compiler optimizations resulted in app startup time “improvements of up to 30% on some devices.” Behind the scenes, “ART is the same for all ...

Google just announced that it will officially support Kotlin on Android as a “first-class” language. Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally ...

Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes ...

Android security: First Kotlin-based malware found in Google Play Store Malware researchers have spotted what they think is the first malicious Android app using the Kotlin language.

Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++.