Our Android repo’s history contains over 100 commits from its Java days along the lines of “Fix NullPointerException crash”. Its seamless interoperability with Java and conservative approach to adding new language features make it a breeze for any Android developer to pick up. Kotlin is far less verbose than Java, making it faster and easier to both write and (more importantly!) maintain. It wasn’t yet clear that Kotlin would ever reach its current level of popularity or go on to unseat Java as Google’s preferred language for Android development. When we first started considering Kotlin in early 2018, Android support for it was less than a year old.
Lines of code in Java (red) and Kotlin (green) over time Why Kotlin There are already plenty of resources online for learning Kotlin, so in this post we’ll focus on our own experience of deploying Kotlin code to millions of users. Two years later, it’s now 100% Kotlin! This migration proved to be a huge success for us in terms of developer productivity and happiness.
Duolingo for Android was a Java app for its first five years of existence.
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