This post is an introduction to Kotlin for Android development. Learn how the language differs from Java and the basic syntax and layout.

Starting with Android 12 and its third developer preview, Google will now show an auto-generated splash screen on all apps.

Two years after tapping Kotlin for use in Android mobile development -- long dominated by Java -- Google is making it the No. 1 option.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.