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Ktor 1.3 was released recently, and we’re happy to share the details with you in this blog post. Ktor consists of two parts: the server engine and a flexible asynchronous HTTP client. The current release focuses mainly on the HTTP client. Here you can find the complete changelog for this release. The client is a multiplatform library that supports JVM, JS, Android, and iOS and is now often use

Summer may be almost over, but our Kotlin/Native team has been breaking a sweat to give you the Kotlin/Native v0.9 release... and here it is! Don't be fooled by the numbering – this is a major (and breaking) release of our compiler toolchain, Gradle plugin, and IDE plugin. Following are the most important changes in this release: Migration to Kotlin 1.3-M2 (compiler and standard library) Suppor

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.8! The focus of this release is on: safer concurrent programming extending the stdlib functionality better iOS development support. Also, numerous bug-fixes and optimizations were implemented in this release. AppCode and CLion Kotlin/Native plugins were updated to work with v0.8, along with minor performance and usability improvements.

Greetings Kotlin fans! Ever since we announced interoperability with Objective-C for Kotlin/Native, we’ve been getting lots of questions about IDE support that would allow working on projects that mix Kotlin/Native and Swift/Objective-C. Today we are happy to announce that we are working on a Kotlin/Native plugin for AppCode! AppCode is our macOS-only IDE designed for iOS/macOS developers. It al

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.5, Christmas edition! This release adds support for using Kotlin/Native code from C, Objective-C and Swift, supports development using iOS simulator, along with LLVM 5 support and creating WebAssembly from Linux and Windows hosts. (more…)

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

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 c

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 conte