Kotlin for Android
To date, Kotlin has received the most popularity in the Android development community. Kotlin starting gaining traction for Android development in 2015, but it was 2017 when Kotlin really came to the forefront. At Google IO 2017, Google announced first-class support for the Kotlin programming language. It was to sit alongside Java and C++ as officially supported languages for the platform and this marked the beginning of the large-scale adoption of the language.
When Android Studio 3.0 was released in October of 2017, there was no longer a major blocker to adopting the language in established projects. Teams that had been concerned about prerelease versions of plugins or IDEs could now try the language on stable tooling ...
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