The Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile plug-in allows developers to write, run, and debug shared code in Android Studio Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

Kotlin's primary sponsor is JetBrains, the company behind tools like IntelliJ. It's 100 percent interoperable with Java, which until now was Google's only primary language for writing Android apps.

Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes ...