Google today announced that it is making Kotlin ... interoperable with Java, which until now was Google’s primary language for writing Android apps (besides C++). The company also today said ...

Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers ... you to still be using the C++ and Java programming languages and ...

ART is the engine behind the Android operating system (OS). It provides the runtime and core APIs that all apps and most OS services rely on. Both Java and Kotlin are compiled down to bytecode ...

the Android runtime, and its new ability to be updated independently of the OS. ART is the engine that powers Android and is responsible for compiling Java and Kotlin into bytecode and executing it.

Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” programming language initially ... programming languages for Android were Java and C++. Google announced official ...