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Now, with 70% of the top 1,000 Android apps written in Kotlin, Google wants more beginners to learn the modern programming language. Google 8 most exciting AI features and tools revealed at Google ...

If you look at GitHub (as of October 2022) and search for Android repositories, you’ll find about 50,000 that use Java, 24,000 that use Kotlin, and (ahem) 73 that use Scala.

It’s easy to see why: Kotlin is simple to use, it’s functional and object-oriented, it’s compatible with Java, and it’s fully supported by Google as a first-class language for Android apps.