Kotlin is no-longer new. As of 7 May 2019, Kotlin has been the official “preferred” language for Android development according to Google. It has been available as a built-in feature of Android ...

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 ...

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 ...

When debating whether to use Kotlin or Java for Android development, you should be aware that there’s a third option: use both. Despite all the differences between the two languages, Java and ...

It’s easy to see why: Kotlin is simple to use, it’s functional and object-oriented, it’s compatible with Java, and it’s fully supported by Google as a first-class language for Android apps.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...