With Kotlin it is possible to quickly and easily add functionality to existing classes, thanks to its extension functions. Here’s how to customize Kotlin and Java classes so that they provide ...

Kotlin vs Java, the latter offers more succinct code – with no findViewByIds. If you compare a Kotlin class and a Java class that are performing the same work, then the Kotlin class will ...

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 ...

It’s no surprise that Google’s hope is that over time, all Android developers will switch over to Kotlin. “There is still quite a bit of Java still happening on Android,” Ward said.

Compared to Java, Google says that Kotlin is more efficient, produces safer code and a smaller codebase, and is 100% interoperable with the Java language – making the switch from Java codebases ...

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 ...