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 ...

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 announced an alpha version of its Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) tool for building compiler plugins in the modern application development language, Kotlin. KSP is compatible with Kotlin 1.4 ...

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 ...

"Kotlin on Android is here to stay, and we have big plans for it." Those are the words of Florina Muntenescu, an Android developer advocate at Google, in announcing the preview of new extensions ...

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 ...

While Google Inc. debuted all sorts of new products and features at its I/O Conference Wednesday, one more obscure announcement received the biggest cheers at the conference: official support for the ...

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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," ...