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," ...

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 “pragmatic” ...

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 ...

If you're not a mobile developer working with Android, chances are you haven't heard of Kotlin. If you are an Android programmer, it's the best thing since sliced bread. While Java has long been ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference. The ...

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 ...