Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android.

Java is one of the “official” languages that Google supports for Android development — the other being Kotlin. While the latter is increasingly favored by Google however, Java remains ...

In May Google gave Android developers another option when it announced it would start supporting a new programming language called Kotlin, which offers most of the same basic features as Java plus ...

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

One possible instance of direct copy-and-paste programming from Oracle's Java to Google's Android is a tiny fraction of the overall Android project, Google argues.

Android GUI Programming. Android applications use a range of standard platform resources for designing and programming user interfaces. Android applications use classes in the Java language to ...

Future of work Battle of the programming languages: Kotlin vs Java in the wake of AI Which language is the better choice when developing AI systems?

This open-source aspect of Java contributed to its widespread acceptance among software developers. So, yes, Sun released some, but not all of the source code.