Since then, Google took this a step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing Android ... lines of Kotlin code in Google’s internal codebase to date. That number, the company ...

you could already write Android apps in the language before, but now Google will put its weight behind the language. Kotlin includes support for a number of features that Java itself doesn’t ...

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 ...