Category Archives: Android

Kotlin 1.3 Released with Coroutines, Kotlin/Native Beta, and more

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Roman Belov

You can read this blog post in other languages: Today we are releasing Kotlin 1.3 together with a set of accompanying libraries, build tools, and learning materials! We develop Kotlin to be a good tool for all application developers, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Events, Native, Releases, Tools | Tagged | 30 Comments

KotlinConf 2018 Announcements

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Hadi Hariri

In today’s keynote at KotlinConf 2018 we made a series of announcements around releases, resources, and other things we’ve made available. For your convenience below is a brief summary of the announcements with the corresponding links for more information. Kotlin … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Events, iOS, Libraries, Native, Playground, Releases, Tools | Tagged | 8 Comments

Kotlin/Native v0.3 is out

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Nikolay Igotti

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.3. We are going to the new lands! With the release of version v0.3 Windows is supported as both a compilation host and execution target, and Google Android devices as an execution … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Native, Releases | 26 Comments

Kotlin on Android. Now official

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Maxim Shafirov

Today, at the Google I/O keynote, the Android team announced first-class support for Kotlin. We believe this is a great step for Kotlin, and fantastic news for Android developers as well as the rest of our community. We’re thrilled with … Continue reading →

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Kotlin 1.1 is also for Android Developers

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Roman Belov

This is a guest blog post from Antonio Leiva — Android engineer, trainer and author of the “Kotlin for Android Developers” book. We’re all really excited about the release of Kotlin 1.1. The new features this release includes are extremely … Continue reading →

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Kotlin’s Android Roadmap

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Dmitry Jemerov

Introduction One of the most interesting pieces of news we’ve all seen recently is Google announcing (limited) Java 8 support for Android N with the Jack compiler for Java. Naturally, our users are curious about how these news affect them, … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Roadmap | 31 Comments

Contest: Go Cross-Platform with Kotlin!

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Roman Belov

Hi All, Have you ever heard about RoboVM? It lets you create beautiful native apps for iOS & Android, allowing you to share code between platforms. RoboVM translates Java bytecode into native ARM or x86 code. The latest RoboVM release … Continue reading →

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Better Annotation Processing: Supporting Stubs in kapt

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Andrey Breslav

This post is largely outdated. Please refer to the kapt documentation. We announced kapt, an Annotation Processing Tool for Kotlin, some time ago, and discussed its limitations. Now most of the limitations are going away with the updated version of … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Libraries, Tools | 18 Comments

kapt: Annotation Processing for Kotlin

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Andrey Breslav

This post is largely outdated. Please refer to the kapt documentation. As there have been many requests to support Java Annotation Processing, we are working on it, and first results are ready for preview. This is the call for early … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Tools | 21 Comments

Advanced Features of Anko

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Andrey Breslav

Last week we published a new version of Anko. While the main purpose of this library is creating layouts though a DSL, even the users of XML layouts can benefit from it. Today we are going to talk about such … Continue reading →

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