Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large ...

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 may even change how Java is used on the server, too. "In short, Android developers without Kotlin skills are at risk of being seen as dinosaurs very soon." [Click on image for larger view.] ...

Today, Android tutorials typically provide examples in both Java and Kotlin, though there is still slightly more support for Java developers (if only because many old posts have yet to be updated).

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 ...

It's part of Google's effort to shift Android app makers from Oracle-owned Java to Kotlin, the official Android ... including Glide for image loading, Retrofit for networking, and Moshi for ...

The publishers of the first edition of the Realm Report, released yesterday, found that Android developers are abandoning Java in favor of Kotlin. The new report was published by Realm, a provider of ...

The popularity of Kotlin among both Java and Android developers has been growing steadily since JetBrains created and then open sourced the statically typed programming language in 2011. Now that ...

Like Java, which is the default language for Android development, Kotlin is a language that runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and it’s already possible to use Kotlin and many other JVM ...