Image: Getty Images/Nitat Termmee. 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 ...

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 ...

Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action. The already ...

The number of applications built using Kotlin has grown by 125 percent. The explosive growth has come since Google officially made Kotlin a first-class language for writing Android apps, announced at ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...

It's part of Google's effort to shift Android app makers from Oracle-owned Java to Kotlin, the official Android programming language from JetBrains, a Czech-based integrated development ...

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.

The popularity of Kotlin among both Java and Android developers has been growing steadily since JetBrains created and then open sourced the statically typed programming language in 2011. Now that ...

The language offers backward compatibility with Java 6 and 7, the versions of Java most closely compatible with Android. JetBrains is also hoping Kotlin will be used in other realms that benefit ...