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Google @ KotlinConf 2024: A Look Inside Multiplatform Development with KMP and more
Google @ KotlinConf 2024: A Look Inside Multiplatform Development with KMP and more

23 May 2024

Posted by Murat Yener – Developer Relations Engineer Following our recent Google I/O announcement recommending Kotlin Multiplatfor...


Android Support for Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) to Share Business Logic Across Mobile, Web, Server, and Desktop
Android Support for Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) to Share Business Logic Across Mobile, Web, Server, and Desktop

14 May 2024

Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza – Director, Product Management, and Jeffrey van Gogh – Director, Engineering Traditionally, developers mu...


Jetpack Compose compiler moving to the Kotlin repository
Jetpack Compose compiler moving to the Kotlin repository

29 April 2024

Posted by Ben Trengrove - Developer Relations Engineer, Nick Butcher - Product Manager for Jetpack Compose We are excited to announc...


KSP2 Preview: Kotlin K2 and Standalone Source Generator
KSP2 Preview: Kotlin K2 and Standalone Source Generator

07 December 2023

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang – Software Engineer, and Jiaxiang Chen – Software Engineer The Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) tool provides...


Kotlin DSL is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds
Kotlin DSL is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds

13 April 2023

Posted by James Ward , Product Manager, Kotlin and Boris Farber , Developer Relations Engineer Android has been Kotlin-first for four...


Celebrating 5 years of Kotlin on Android
Celebrating 5 years of Kotlin on Android

17 August 2022

Posted by Márton Braun, Developer Relations Engineer Five years ago, at the 2017 Google I/O Keynote, we did something we had never done befo...


Discontinuing Kotlin synthetics for views
Discontinuing Kotlin synthetics for views

18 February 2022

Posted by Márton Braun , Developer Relations Engineer   Synthetic properties to access views were created as a way to el...


Android Basics and Training Update
Android Basics and Training Update

20 January 2022

Posted by Dan Galpin , Developer Relations Engineer In October of 2021 we released the final unit of Android Basics in Kotlin ...


Announcing the Android Basics in Kotlin Course
Announcing the Android Basics in Kotlin Course

14 October 2021

Posted by Murat Yener, Developer Advocate We are always looking for ways to make learning Android development acces...


Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0
Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0

07 September 2021

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang, Software Engineer and Jiaxiang Chen, Software Engineer Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), o...


Android @ Google I/O: 3 things to know in Modern Android Development
Android @ Google I/O: 3 things to know in Modern Android Development

26 May 2021

Posted by The Modern Android Development Team This year’s Google I/O brought lots of updates for Modern Android Development. Here are...