Context. Android developers that developed Android apps using Java 6 for a long time got introduced to Kotlin as a new programming language in 2017. Kotlin contains many features that make it a ...

1. Verbose Syntax: One of the main criticisms of Java is its verbose syntax, which can lead to longer, more complex code compared to more modern languages like Kotlin. 2. Null Pointer Exceptions: Java ...

Kotlin’s current rating is 1.15%, its highest since Google announced first-class support for Kotlin on Android in 2017. Previously, Kotlin had peaked at almost 1%, according to TIOBE’s ...

Build Failure: CodeQL detected code written in Java/Kotlin but could not process any of it. #2310 New issue Closed vorburger ...

“Studies have shown that Kotlin is much more expressive than Java, i.e., you need to write less lines of code to do the same thing in Kotlin,” Jansen told TechRepublic.

Although Java 8 adds support for lambdas and is available for Android, it comes at the cost of more anonymous objects, which affect performance negatively on low-end Android devices. Meta's ...

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 over to Kotlin. That's a large ...

Meta, parent of Facebook, is in the midst of migrating its Android app Java code to Kotlin, a younger programming language that also relies on the Java Virtual Machine, or JVM. Created by software ...

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 ...

But Kotlin today is also far more than just Android. Server-side Kotlin is becoming quite common at Google at this point, it seems, with over 8.5 million lines of Kotlin code in Google’s ...

Android 13 Beta 1 introduced a new QR code scanner in Quick Settings, a feature which leaked a few months ago. We tried it for ourselves and, trust us, it's blazingly fast.

A list of cool/useful Android studio plugins :electric_plug: - andyb129/AndroidStudioPluginsNPlay ...