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 ...

At the latest Google I/O conference, Google announced that Android Studio would soon support development with Kotlin out of the box. While this was big news, it may have left some people a little cold ...

Google has launched Android Basics in Kotlin, a program for beginner developers that teaches them how to build Android apps. Kotlin has become one of the fastest growing languages on GitHub, in part ...

Czechia-based developer tools company JetBrains is making progress with its open-source UI framework, Jetpack Compose for Desktop. JetBrains is the designer behind Kotlin, the Google-endorsed ...

When the discussion of peripheral JVM languages arises, the discussion typically drifts toward the ways in which difficult issues like concurrency, multithreading, simplifying the type system and ...

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 “pragmatic” ...

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Different coding languages and a lack of resources have made cross-platform app development hard. Companies use different methods to make user-friendly iOS and Android apps as quickly as possible.