Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

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 “pragmatic” ...

Java is one of the “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin. While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains popular due to ...

2024 Java Developer Productivity Report finds most companies plan to add Java developers this year, though most tool budgets not rising. Most respondents to a recent survey on Java productivity said ...

Java is the official programming language of Android and it is the basis for many components of the OS itself, plus it is found at the core of Android’s SDK. Java ...