At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...

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

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

Since Kotlin is dependent on Java, it means both languages will continue to be supported. Google will now contribute to the further growth of Kotlin and build new tools directly into Android ...