In addition, Kotlin is 100% interoperable with Java code. This means that companies can easily switch to Kotlin without having to rewrite all of the code associated with their Android apps.

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 ...

Even with Kotlin’s growing popularity, Java continues to be a stable and officially supported language for Android development, extensively utilized in both legacy systems and new projects.

Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor ...

Kotlin development is now supported by Android Studio by default, but why should you care? Here are 10 good reasons to give Kotlin a try!

Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action.

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

Officially released in 2016, Kotlin has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, especially since Google announced its support for Kotlin as an alternative to Java on Android platforms.

Meta has been at work to port their Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. In the process, they have learned a number of lessons of general interest and developed a few useful approaches, explains Meta ...