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 ...

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

If you want to learn the Kotlin programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos and websites.

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 ...