Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google ...

As of 7 May 2019, Kotlin has been the official “preferred” language for Android development according to Google. It has been available as a built-in feature of Android Studio and an official ...

but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s preferred official language for Android! Today, Android Studio ships with Kotlin support built-in ...

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 ...

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google ... possible to use Kotlin and many other ...

As Facebook engineers detailed last year, while Kotlin adoption can be smooth, it is difficult at scale. Facebook uses its own Buck build system versus IntelliJ/Android Studio IDE, which use Gradle.

It was only two years ago, at I/O 2017, that Google announced support for Kotlin in its Android Studio IDE ... of professional Android developers now use the language to develop their apps ...