Kotlin is a relatively new programming language; a derivative of Java with lots of little handy functional bits such as coroutines. [Foalyy] is porting an app to Android and learning Kotlin at the ...

It’s no surprise that Google’s hope is that over time, all Android developers will switch over to Kotlin. “There is still quite a bit of Java still happening on Android,” Ward said.

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

Google just announced that it will officially support Kotlin on Android as a “first-class” language. Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally ...

As it stands today, Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin, but Apple is looking to provide its Swift coding language as an alternative.