Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in ...

For years, Java was the one official language for Android development. While other options were available through alternative tools like Unity or Xamarin, Java with the Android SDK was still the clear ...

Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s preferred ...

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Embrace, the user-focused observability platform, announced that the donation of its Kotlin implementation and SDK to OpenTelemetry has been accepted. This contribution expands vendor-neutral ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Kotlin was designed as a language that expressed many Java idioms cleanly, and bundles in a lot ...

It’s been just over five years since Google first announced that it would make Kotlin, the statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine first developed by JetBrains, a first-class language ...

Kotlin 2.3.0 has reached the release candidate (RC) stage. Highlights of the latest update of JetBrains’s Java alternative include a new checker for unused return values, improved interoperability ...