During the first KotlinConf underway in San Francisco, Google provided an update on the programming language's use for Android development, indicating that it's been a big hit so far ... on image for ...

You can hit this tab at any ... switch to the “Design” view by hitting the button in the top right. In Android development, you will need to work with not only Kotlin/Java, but also XML.

Then came Kotlin for Android. Also read ... Now you can access the view directly with no need to use its ID. This makes life much simpler and can save you writing a lot of arbitrary code.

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large ...