In our company, we started using Kotlin since its official release and migrated some Java projects to it. I believe that both languages are great. The plus of Kotlin is that it is being frequently updated and improved. Several years ago, Google added official support for Kotlin. Recently, a new version has been released. However, Java is constantly updated, too. What do you believe the best language for Android development?
What to you believe the best language for Android dev - Java or Kotlin?
I prefer Kotlin language for Android
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Thank you for the answer.
Hi @sergeysmartym,
Java is still widely used for Android development specially given that a majority of developers came from the Enterprise Java background.
Kotlin on the other hand provides a much better and modern language to develop and is quite liked by newer developers and is being adopted by a lot of devs and organisations. The beauty is that since it compiles to JVM bytecode it is still reliant on Java but provides a much better language experience.
So personally, I would prefer Kotlin unless you have any legacy code that needs to be maintained.
cheers,
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Thank you for sharing your experience and opinion!)