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Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android.

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

Android developers were already able to use Kotlin through a plug-in, but from now on it'll ship alongside Java and C++ with the official Android IDE.

Optimize C++ performance profiling (above) is now possible in Android Studio 3.1, in addition to Kotlin and Java. This includes recording C++ method traces.