Java is one of the top three programming languages, thanks to its dominance in enterprise applications, while Kotlin is a less popular but still top 20 programming language.Meta's switch away from ...

Are the days of Java’s rule over Android apps coming to an end? Google announced official support for the Kotlin programming language in May 2017 at its annual I/O developer conference.

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 ...

Google says its Android runtime makes apps faster, even without an OS update ART, the Android runtime, can bring Android 14 improvements to older devices. Ron Amadeo – Aug 22, 2023 12:07 pm | 38 ...

This time, Google is not using Kotlin as a base for the entire OS, but just as an alternative to writing Android apps. "It’s clear: Java (on Android) is dying," the Realm team explains.

Described as the "engine behind the Android operating system (OS)," ART is responsible for the translation of an app's bytecode into native instructions that are executed by the device's runtime ...

Kotlin, the Google-endorsed programming language for building Android apps, now has the fastest-growing population of contributors on Microsoft-owned code-hosting repository GitHub. Google made ...

Google has apparently been thinking along the same lines, and in a lengthy blog post Tuesday, the company announced that the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for low-level OS components.

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 ...