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Java is one of the “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin.While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains popular ...

A new report from mobile development platform Realm claims that 2018 will be the “year of Kotlin” and the upstart programming language will overtake Java as the de facto language for Android ...

He offered a brief criticism of former Android boss Andy Rubin's handling of Java in the development of Android. Gosling in 2011 had a brief stint at Google following Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

After Kotlin was approved by Google for Android development, more than 50% of Android developers switched to it from Java, and also up to 20% of Java server-side developers.