It is an exciting time to be an Android developer. A big reason behind this excitement is the official support that Google has extended to the programming language Kotlin. Kotlin after all, gives ...

With Google’s support the free to use Kotlin is becoming more mainstream. Five-star apps that have been written in Kotlin include Pinterest, Evernote, Trello, Square, and Coursera. I’m a huge advocate ...

Developers have actually been able to use Kotlin for some time via a plugin but as of Android Studio 3.0, it’s going to be as simple as ticking a box to ‘Include Kotlin support’. 2. It’s ...

Google’s latest recommendation follows the company’s May 2017 endorsement of Kotlin as a supported language for Android development alongside Java. Since then, Kotlin has become the most ...

Two years after tapping Kotlin for use in Android mobile development -- long dominated by Java -- Google is making it the No. 1 option. "Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first," ...

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 ...

Google's Kotlin product manager James Ward welcomed Meta's move: "Android has been Kotlin-first for three years as it offers our best possible developer experience while building on top of and ...

The android app development space is a pretty complex one. While Java was the main language for app development for a long time, it all changed after Google started to officially support the ...

Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its ...