Google has detailed significant improvements that the Google Home team achieved just by rewriting the Google Home app in the modern programming language Kotlin. Google is encouraging all Android ...

In order to maximize the benefits brought by Kotlin in terms of productivity and safety, Meta engineers have been hard at work to translate their 10 million line Android codebase from Java into ...

Note that I’m using Kotlin Android Extensions to import references to the Button and TextView UI elements into the Kotlin source file, which is why there’s no findViewByIds in the above code.

Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.

Unlike Groovy, Kotlin is a statically typed programming language, so if you make the switch then your build files will be compatible with Android Studio’s autocompletion and source code ...

The Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile plug-in allows developers to write, run, and debug shared code in Android Studio ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

Kotlin Gains in Popularity (source: Stack Overflow Trends) With Visual Studio, Android development is primarily done with C# via Xamarin, or with JavaScript via Cordova. The VS approach emphasizes ...

Across the last two years, Duolingo seamlessly migrated its Java Android app to 100% Kotlin. Among the main benefits this brought, developers improved their productivity and happiness while the ...