Android App Development with Kotlin – Heralding the Future! Summary As always, technology has never stopped evolving. And here comes a programming language – open source, easy to code and powered by Google – Kotlin that has been announced as the first class language for Android recently. Ever since then, there have been speculations about its advantages and how will it compete with the master of all languages – Java. Here is a brief attempt to show case what Kotlin is for Android App Development and whether it is capable of competing with Java.
A novel, open source language for contemporary, multiplatform applications that is creating news – Kotlin is based on JVM and has been introduced as the supported language for Android. Isn’t that a great news? For developers involved in Android App Development, it certainly is. This statically typed programming language has been an innovative find by JetBrains programmers from Russia and that is where the name comes from – the name of an island close to their home place in Russia. Kotlin comes with high class Android Support Studio. In the annual Google I/O 2017, it had been announced as the first class language for Android. This gave a big boost to the users of Kotlin, increasing almost multifold and that was it, Kotlin never had to look back for its acceptance. Since then, there is an increasing number of Android developers who are enjoying the Kotlin programming and making the best Android apps with its assistance. Ranging from new startup companies to huge conglomerates, developers are choosing Kotlin as their primary programming language, since they are finding it much easier, simplified, productivity oriented and efficient.
As we see that Android App Development has made enterprises go places, the involvement of Kotlin as the first programming language with Android is sure to bring in further success and acceptance all over the globe. Kotlin support is now embedded into the IDE available with