Why Kotlin for Android Development
    Why you should use Kotlin for Android development     Java  is the most widely used language for Android development, but that  doesn’t mean it is always the best choice. Java is old, verbose,  error-prone, and has been slow to modernize. Kotlin is a worthy  alternative.    OpenJDK developers are starting to bridge the gap with Java  8, but Android doesn’t use all the features of Java 8. Developers are  still stuck in the old Java 7 and 6 worlds, and that's not going to  improve much in the foreseeable future. That's where Kotlin comes in:  This relatively new open source language, based on the Java Virtual  Machine (JVM), is gaining traction with Android software engineers.    There are other JVM languages you could try to use on Android, but  Kotlin offers integrations with Android Studio, Google's primary IDE for  Android, that no language, has, other than Java.    Here's why now is the time to start using this modern, sophisticated, pragmatic langua...