Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android.

Now, with 70% of the top 1,000 Android apps written in Kotlin, Google wants more beginners to learn the modern programming language.

Kotlin development is now supported by Android Studio by default, but why should you care? Here are 10 good reasons to give Kotlin a try!

Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.

Kotlin is a statically typed “pragmatic” programming language for the Java Virtual Machine and Android that combines object-oriented and functional programming features.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

Kotlin coroutines are still in the experimental phase, but they are quickly becoming one of the most popular features for developers that want to use asynchronous programming methods.

A new report released earlier this week estimates that Kotlin will surpass Java as the primary programming language used for Android apps by December 2018.

At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...