Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference.

Java is one of the top three programming languages, thanks to its dominance in enterprise applications, while Kotlin is a less popular but still top 20 programming language.Meta's switch away from ...

Few other programming languages enjoy the same level of tooling support that Java does, which helps cement itself as the best programming language. 4. First-order Android Support. Android is the world ...

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 ...

Android development is a main driver in the recent uptick in Java's popularity and the language's re-emergence at the top of the TIOBE index. Google has never officially commented on why it's using ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...

After Kotlin was approved by Google for Android development, more than 50% of Android developers switched to it from Java, and also up to 20% of Java server-side developers.

Java SE uses three different kinds of code to implement the methods that it includes. The first is the “call,” which programmers type when they want to use a method. Breyer’s opinion, for example, ...

While Java has long been Android's main programming language, it's never a good fit. Java was written when "mobile" computing devices were 7-pound laptops. In the meantime, ...