A new report released earlier this week estimates that Kotlin will surpass Java as the primary programming language used for Android apps by December 2018. Until earlier this year, Kotlin was a little ...

If you're not a mobile developer working with Android, chances are you haven't heard of Kotlin. If you are an Android programmer, it's the best thing since sliced bread. While Java has long been ...

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 ...

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Oracle execs speaking to attendees at last week's JavaOne conference pushed hard on the "Java First" concept. Mark Cavage, Oracle's new VP of product development in the company's Java and Container ...

Google’s Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with a few major changes and a bunch of small ones – the most notable being built-in support for Kotlin and ...

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. The already ...

Two years after tapping Kotlin for use in Android mobile development -- long dominated by Java -- Google is making it the No. 1 option. "Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first," ...