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Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference.

Java is one of the “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin. While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains ...

Learning Android app development may seem like a daunting task, but it can open up a world of possibilities. You could create the next “hit app” that changes the way we work or interact with ...

While Java has long been Android's main programming language, it's never a good fit. Java was written when "mobile" computing devices were 7-pound laptops. In the meantime, Apple iOS developers ...

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 ...

He offered a brief criticism of former Android boss Andy Rubin's handling of Java in the development of Android. Gosling in 2011 had a brief stint at Google following Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

Few other programming languages enjoy the same level of tooling support that Java does, which helps cement itself as the best programming language. Android is the world's most popular mobile phone OS ...

A new report released earlier this week estimates that Kotlin will surpass Java as the primary programming language used for Android apps by December 2018. Until earlier this year, Kotlin was a ...

Learn More At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the ...