Unlike the Swift programming language, which was an internal Apple project and then open sourced later, Google won’t own Kotlin . The language will continue to be developed and supported by JetBrains — the company is partnering with Google to set up a nonprofit Kotlin foundation to shepherd the language.
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Have you ever thought how much Google paid to introduce Kotlin into Android? This question usually surprises the developers I talk to about this topic. The answer in most cases is that Google got Kotlin for free because it is released under Apache 2.0 open-source license .
Read moreIs Android moving to Kotlin?
Ever since Android app development began, Java was Google’s official programming language. Yet, the position of authority is now locked by Kotlin . At its I/O keynote declaration in 2017, Google announced Kotlin to be the official programming language for coding Android applications.
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Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.
Read moreIs Google replacing Java with Kotlin?
We have a new member in our programming languages family and it’s none other than Kotlin. In Google I/O ’17, they have finally announced that for android the official first class support will be given to the Kotlin .
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