Google is continuing to implement support for Java 8 in its Android mobile OS, last week issuing Android Studio 2.4 Preview 6, which fixes numerous bugs associated with the company's new way of ...

Today, Android Studio ships with Kotlin support ... These ‘extension functions’ aren’t available in Java, although they are available in other programming languages that you can use for ...

Have a look at the function declaration near the top ... On the other hand, converting Java to Kotlin in Android Studio is a simple matter of pasting the Java code into a Kotlin file.

Having Java on our computer when we install Android Studio will also remove an extra ... so it should already function as a full “Hello World” app! If you were able to run it (which requires ...

Latest version of Android Studio uses Jetpack Compose and Material ... which allows developers to view Compose functions in the system tracing profiler and measure rendering times.

and Java 8 language application protocol interfaces (APIs). Google has released Android Studio 4.0 just ahead of the first Android 11 beta, whose release was pushed back a month to June 3 due to ...

Google’s Android Studio 3.0 dev ... built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8. Google first announced that it would bake Kotlin compatibility into Android Studio back in May at its IO conference ...

Meta also built Ktfmt, a plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio that provides a "deterministic Kotlin formatter based on the code and philosophy of google-java-format." Also: Small businesses need ...