We normally focus on ‘there's null safety’ or ‘there's type inference’ or all these other technical parts. “Technology can really change people's lives and it can really make people happier at work. Learn more and share your own storiesYou can read more stories about Kotlin from our interviewees in the accompanying Medium post.We’d also love to hear your stories of learning and adopting Kotlin for Android development! Share them on social media using the hashtag #Hi5KotlinOnAndroid!įinally, let’s appreciate these kind words about Kotlin’s accomplishments to conclude our story. The excitement in the community was one of the main reasons to invest in official support. Early yearsThe Kotlin adoption story started before official support from Google, within the Android developer community. This post includes quotes from a handful of people who were involved in making Kotlin on Android a success, who are joining us for this celebration. To celebrate the amazing language that now powers modern Android app development, we’re taking a quick look at the journey of Kotlin on Android. Now, five years have passed since the original announcement. It also has outstanding IDE support, as JetBrains develops both the language and its tooling. Since then, JetBrains and Google have been collaborating around the development of Kotlin, and the Kotlin Foundation was co-founded by the two companies.Īs highlighted in those initial I/O announcements, Kotlin is interoperable, mature, production-ready, and open source. It was great to see how excited the Android developer community was about this announcement. It is made by JetBrains, the same guys who make IntelliJ, Resharper and other awesome tools.Five years ago, at the 2017 Google I/O Keynote, we did something we had never done before: we announced official support for a new programming language to build Android apps with: Kotlin. Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that can be used to write Android Apps. In this blog post, I will be looking at getting Kotlin set up in existing Android Apps. After reading a lot of different posts raving about Kotlin, I couldn’t help myself.
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