Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

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Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s preferred ...

Kotlin was designed to bring more flexibility and flow to programming in the JVM. Here's an in-depth look at how Kotlin makes working with classes and objects easier and introduces coroutines to ...

Is there a Java class that you’ve always felt was missing some useful functionality for Android development? With Kotlin it is possible to quickly and easily add functionality to existing classes, ...

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 ...

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