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 ...

After Kotlin was approved by Google for Android development, more than 50% of Android developers switched to it from Java, and also up to 20% of Java server-side developers.

Kotlin is a great language for Java developers to expand into. It complements and embellishes what you already can do with Java and offers serious power from within the JVM ecosystem.

Now that it has, more people recognize that Kotlin is a “promising” and useful language in which to work on Android mobile app development, Jansen said. SEE: How to get started with Kotlin ...