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.

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.

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 ...

With Android 14 QPR2 Beta 3, Google has added icons for alarm and DND that appear across from the weather. It looks much cleaner if only one is active, while Google not opting to stack them ...

Google offers free lessons to help up-and-coming developers build Android apps using Kotlin. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer. Contributing Writer. Sept. 23, 2019 at 4:17 a.m. PT.

Kotlin also now offers 64-bit watchOS simulator and Xcode 12.2 SDK support. When it comes to standard library changes, Kotlin 1.43.0 includes an experimental locale-agnostic API for changing the ...

Well, with today's Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1, Priority Modes are already here, and they'll be out in stable with the March 2025 Pixel Feature Drop, as highlighted by Mishaal Rahman in a report for ...