Comment by iudqnolq
12 days ago
I don't know the story of how the Android team went Kotlin-first. If that wasn't a deliberate plan they got quite lucky. Could Kotlin arguably be backed by Google?
12 days ago
I don't know the story of how the Android team went Kotlin-first. If that wasn't a deliberate plan they got quite lucky. Could Kotlin arguably be backed by Google?
Android Studio is based on IntelliJ and there's a lot of collaboration between both teams. The adoption of Kotlin was a logical next step, considering a lot of IntelliJ is written in Kotlin.
No, the Android community adopted Kotlin before Google added any support for it from their side.
I don't know when the first Kotlin Android app was published, but Kotlin 1.0 was released in 2016 and then announced as a first class language at Google I/O in 2017.