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It’s no surprise that Google’s hope is that over time, all Android developers will switch over to Kotlin. “There is still quite a bit of Java still happening on Android,” Ward said.

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