Java is one of the top three programming languages, thanks to its dominance in enterprise applications, while Kotlin is a less popular but still top 20 programming language.Meta's switch away from ...

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.

Thus, when Google and its allies were in search of a programming foundation for Android -- something that could span a range of devices -- Java was a natural place to start. Indeed, in 2005, that ...

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, ...

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.

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.

Android applications use a range of standard platform resources for designing and programming user interfaces. Android applications use classes in the Java language to implement various aspects of ...

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 biggest ...