This post is an introduction to Kotlin for Android development. Learn how the language differs from Java and the basic syntax and layout.

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 Meta ...

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

Google is encouraging all Android developers to use Kotlin after its 2019 announcement that Android development will from here on be "Kotlin-first" as opposed to Java, which was historically the ...

The appeal of Kotlin among Android developers is straightforward: It's a statically typed language -- similar to Scala, Gosu, Ceylon and Fantom -- which compiles to both JVM byte code and JavaScript.

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.

An introduction to Kotlin for Android development (Android Authority). A Complete Guide To Learn Kotlin For Android Development (Mindorks blog post). BTW, for non-Kotlin Android development in VS Code ...