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Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development

Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development

TechCrunch Industry News · TechCrunch

May 8, 20192m 48s

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Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in today’s announcement. “Many new Jetpack APIs and features will be offered first in Kotlin. If you’re starting a new project, you should write it in Kotlin; code written in Kotlin often mean much less code for you–less code to type, test, and maintain.

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