JetBrains Academy launched its new Kotlin Basics program as a free introduction for people getting into software development to get started on the most popular language for building Android apps.

Kotlin is one of two official languages used in Android development and is Google’s preferred choice when it comes to the platform. This is good news for wannabe developers, owing to its ...

Since then, Google took this a step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing Android apps in 2019 — and while plenty of developers still use Java, Kotlin is quickly becoming ...

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.

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 ...

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