Google has detailed significant improvements that the Google Home team achieved just by rewriting the Google Home app in the modern programming language Kotlin. Google is encouraging all Android ...

Kotlin, the top app programming language for building Android apps, gains a bunch of new features. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer May 10, 2021 at 2:37 a.m. PT.

Google describes Kotlin, which is an open sourced project under the Apache 2.0 license, as “a brilliantly designed, mature language that we believe will make Android development faster and more ...

Although the first official release of Kotlin came only last year, the language has a history that stretches back to 2010. It was created by a Czech company called JetBrains, which makes software ...

Software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o. today announced the milestone release of Kotlin 2.0, a major update to the programming language used on Android and for multiplatform development.

Unveiled in 2011, the Kotlin language could become a top-20 player in the index, he said. “It might be considered the Swift variant for Android in some ways,” Jansen said.

It was only two years ago, at I/O 2017, that Google announced support for Kotlin in its Android Studio IDE.That came as a bit of a surprise, given that Java had long been the preferred language ...