Kotlin is no-longer new. As of 7 May 2019, Kotlin has been the official “preferred” language for Android development according to Google. It has been available as a built-in feature of Android ...

But Kotlin can also support higher-order functions, anonymous functions, lambdas, and much more! Nearly a year ago, Google announced support for Kotlin on Android, and Kotlin is now built into the ...

1. It’s super easy to set up. Developers have actually been able to use Kotlin for some time via a plugin but as of Android Studio 3.0, it’s going to be as simple as ticking a box to ...

With Kotlin, there is less to type, less to test, and less to maintain, said Chet Haase, who leads the Android UI team at Google, at the Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, CA.

A basic understanding of Android and Kotlin concepts such as views, activities, lifecycle, and Kotlin coroutines will be useful to get the most out of this book. With the following software and ...

But we also feel pretty excited that Kotlin is ready for us to use right now, and we're already using it ourselves to write code in Android Studio which gives us more ideas for making our support even ...

Students will discover what Kotlin is, learn how it’s used in Android development, and find out how to build apps that are aesthetically pleasing.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...