This is a Kotlin tutorial for Android: ... When we do this, we call it an “argument.” This essentially lets us pass an input into our function, to change the output.

Kotlin's primary sponsor is JetBrains, the company behind tools like IntelliJ. It's 100 percent interoperable with Java, which until now was Google's only primary language for writing Android apps.

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.

Java is one of the top three programming languages, thanks to its dominance in enterprise applications, while Kotlin is a less popular but still top 20 programming language.Meta's switch away from ...

Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes ...