The popularity of Kotlin among both Java and Android developers has been growing steadily since JetBrains created and then open sourced the statically typed programming language in 2011. Now that ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its lead ...
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The vast majority of developers who use a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) language still use Java, but a sizable chunk of the population is shifting to Kotlin, a JVM-compatible language developed by ...
Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...