For years, Java was the one official language for Android development. While other options were available through alternative tools like Unity or Xamarin, Java with the Android SDK was still the clear ...
At the latest Google I/O conference, Google announced that Android Studio would soon support development with Kotlin out of the box. While this was big news, it may have left some people a little cold ...
Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in ...
When the discussion of peripheral JVM languages arises, the discussion typically drifts toward the ways in which difficult issues like concurrency, multithreading, simplifying the type system and ...
Google has launched Android Basics in Kotlin, a program for beginner developers that teaches them how to build Android apps. Kotlin has become one of the fastest growing languages on GitHub, in part ...
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Google has detailed significant improvements that the Google Home team achieved just by rewriting the Google Home app in the modern programming language Kotlin. Google is encouraging all Android ...
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 lead ...