Google’s Android Studio 3. ... being built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8. Google first announced that it would bake Kotlin compatibility into Android Studio back in May at its IO conference ...

Android Studio will display a banner asking you to configure your project to support Kotlin; click the ‘Configure’ link and follow the onscreen instructions. Convert existing Java files to Kotlin.

that people are writing in something first and then rewriting in Java," he said. "We need to change ... Kotlin targets the JVM, Android, and JavaScript, and also compiles to native code. In May, it ...

Kotlin may even change how Java is used on the server ... So we're thrilled to make Kotlin an official language on Android. So what can Visual Studio developers do to avoid becoming dinosaurs -- or at ...

Meta also built Ktfmt, a plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio that provides a "deterministic Kotlin formatter based on the code and philosophy of google-java-format." Also: Small businesses need ...

Kotlin can be added to earlier versions of Android Studio with a plug-in. Kotlin compiles to the same byte code as Java, interoperates with Java classes in natural ways, and shares its tooling ...

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 ... JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on. Like Java, which is the ...