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

This is a Kotlin tutorial for Android: a fun and simple quiz that will serve as the perfect introduction to Kotlin programming.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

It’s no surprise that Google’s hope is that over time, all Android developers will switch over to Kotlin. “There is still quite a bit of Java still happening on Android,” Ward said.

It was only two years ago, at I/O 2017, that Google announced support for Kotlin in its Android Studio IDE. That came as a bit of a surprise, given that Java had long been the preferred language ...

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.