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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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 ...

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 ...

Software toolmaker JetBrains and the Spring Team at VMware have announced a strategic collaboration to enhance support for the Kotlin programming language in Spring-based backend development. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kotlin 2.0.20 should significantly shorten garbage collection pause time and help improve application responsiveness, JetBrains said. JetBrains has released an update to the Kotlin programming ...

You'll find millions of apps in the Google Play store, many of them written using the powerful, stable, workhorse programming language Java. If it were a car, Java would feature a fast, reliable ...