Kotlin for Android, or an easy way to stop programming in Java

At our conference of mobile developers # MBLTDev , which took place at the end of October in Moscow, Ilya Ryzhenkov, a product specialist at JetBrains, told us about the Android programming language Kotlin .



Kotlin was developed by JetBrains and publicly introduced in 2011. In 2012, the source code was opened.





Presentation

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Ilya told about the history of creating a language, the advantages of programming in Kotlin, the differences between Kotlin and Java, and what can be done on it. He also showed some code samples on Kotlin for the Android platform.



You can find previous videos by links:

1. "Automatic testing of Android applications with love"
2. "Experience of using MVVM in real projects"
3. "Swift Reactive Programming"
4. "Core Data: features of use and synchronization in iCloud"

Next week we will post reports on the safety of iOS devices, modern authentication methods and trilateration using iBeacon.