A lot of the time, code will look a fair bit simpler and shorter in Kotlin for Android as compared with Java. Consider the following example of adding an onClickListener to a floating action ...

Kotlin vs Java, the latter offers more succinct code – with no findViewByIds If you compare a Kotlin class and a Java class that are performing the same work, then the Kotlin class will ...

Many Google teams have also been on a similar journey from Java to Kotlin for both Android and the server-side, culminating in over 11m lines of Kotlin code (as of October 2022).

Meta has been at work to port their Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. In the process, they have learned a number of lessons of general interest and developed a few useful approaches, explains ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

Google has detailed significant improvements that the Google Home team achieved just by rewriting the Google Home app in the modern programming language Kotlin. Google is encouraging all Android ...

Android developers were already able to use Kotlin through a plug-in, but from now on it'll ship alongside Java and C++ with the official Android IDE.

Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.

JetBrains has released an alpha version of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM), an SDK that enables developers to use the same business logic in both Android and iOS mobile applications.