A lot of the time, code will look a fair bit simpler and shorter in Kotlin for Android as compared with Java. Consider the following example of adding an onClickListener to a floating action ...

Announcing a new free beginner's Kotlin Android development course last week, Google claimed that 70% of the top 1,000 Android apps are written in Kotlin and one of them is from the team that ...

Note that I’m using Kotlin Android Extensions to import references to the Button and TextView UI elements into the Kotlin source file, which is why there’s no findViewByIds in the above code.

Google offers free lessons to help up-and-coming developers build Android apps using Kotlin. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Sept. 23, 2019 at 4:17 a.m. PT.

The short answer is that Kotlin code is safer and more concise than Java code, and that Kotlin and Java files can coexist in Android apps, so that Kotlin is not only useful for new apps, but also ...

Kotlin is all the rage now that it has been deemed a first-class programming language for developing Android apps.. Actually, it's been raging all on its own for a while now, as evidenced by the Stack ...

BTW, for non-Kotlin Android development in VS Code, there's an "Android for VS Code" extension. Its description says: "This is a preview version of the Android for VS Code Extension. The extension ...

The Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile plug-in allows developers to write, run, and debug shared code in Android Studio Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...