Kotlin is all the rage now that it has been deemed a first-class programming language for developing Android apps. Actually, it's been raging all on its own for a while now, as evidenced by the Stack ...

Hot on the heels of dropping the Android 8.1 developer preview and posting factory images, Google also released an update for Android Studio. Android Studio 3.0 was announced at Google I/O 2017 and ...

Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s preferred ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. For the past few years, the primary way to build Android ...

Again, this is a very early preview of Android Studio 3.0. The good news is that you can install it alongside your stable version. That’s important because if you want to target Android O, create an ...

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” ...