Android

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 the opportunities this opens up. For Android developers, Kotlin support is a chance to use a modern and powerful language, helping solve common headaches such as runtime exceptions and source code verbosity. Kotlin is easy to get started with and can be gradually introduced into existing projects, which means that your existing skills and technology investment

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 useful for Java developers and lead JVM development to a new world of possibilities. But these new features, such as coroutines, or type aliases (to put a couple of examples), look like science fiction for Android developers. We’re still stuck in an ancient Java 6 with little improvements that forces us to develop in ways almost forgotten for most devel

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, and this blog post outlines our plans and our vision for Kotlin’s place in the Android development world in light of Google’s announcements. (more…)

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 makes it super easy to get up and running with Kotlin! And today you have a good incentive to play with it, by taking part in the first ever Kotlin Mobile contest! Simply install the RoboVM plugin for IntelliJ IDEA or download RoboVM Studio, and create a cross-platform Kotlin app. (more…)

This post is largely outdated.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 kapt that is available as a 0.1-SNAPSHOT preview. (more…)

This post is largely outdated.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 feedback. (more…)

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 "ambivalent" features of Anko. (more…)

Today we are glad to present the new version of Anko — a library which facilitates Android application development. We are happy to have received lots of feedback, and some of the changes in 0.6 were actually proposed by the community. (more…)

We're excited to announce a library we've been working on for Android development, which, among other things allows the creation of Application Interfaces in a type-safe and dynamic way using a DSL. A Sample Taste Here is a small example describing some of Anko's possibilities. Imagine we need to create a simple sign-up form consisting of an EditText for a username and a "Sign up" Button. The code for this, using Anko would be: import kotlinx.android.anko.* class MainActivity : Activity() { override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)