In September 2016, Kotlin accounted for 5.1 percent of Android development versus 94.9 percent for Java, Realm’s data shows. A year later, it’s 14.3 percent for Kotlin versus 85.7 percent for ...

Android app development is currently dominated by Kotlin, which was announced as Google's preferred language for Android in 2017.

At KotlinConf 2025, JetBrains teased some of the new features that are coming to Kotlin in the next update to the language. “From exciting language and ecosystem updates and robust AI tools that ...