Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java ... over to Kotlin is not a trivial task," notes ...

Because there is no overhead for calling back and forth between Kotlin and Java, adding Kotlin incrementally to an Android app currently ... any kind of development: multi-platform, server-side ...

Since Android is single-threaded by default, as soon as you block the main thread your app ... Java has the edge over Kotlin. Kotlin, unlike Java, supports the “composition over inheritance ...

Google’s Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with a few major changes and a bunch of small ones – the most notable being built-in support for ...

Java has been a programming stalwart since its inception in 1995, and remains one of the most popular languages for web applications and big data processing, however, Kotlin, a relatively new kid ...

A new report released earlier this week estimates that Kotlin will surpass Java as the primary programming language used for Android apps by December 2018. Until earlier this year, Kotlin was a ...

Kotlin is now used by over 60% of professional Android developers and is an alternative to building apps with Java: Google engineers ... KAPT's stub generation," note Huang and Winer.