Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s ...

Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.

On the other hand, converting Java to Kotlin in Android Studio is a simple matter of pasting the Java code into a Kotlin file. In 2022, six years after Kotlin 1.0, ...

Kotlin for Android development vs Java. Kotlin is similar to Java in many ways and runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It is 100% interoperable with Java, and thus there is no performance loss when ...

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 ...

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.

It was only two years ago, at I/O 2017, that Google announced support for Kotlin in its Android Studio IDE.That came as a bit of a surprise, given that Java had long been the preferred language ...

Android Studio is the developers interface into the world of code for Android and back at Google I/O this year, Kotlin was announced as an officially supported ‘first-class’ language in ...