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Google has been careful to note that Kotlin is an additional language, not a replacement for its existing Java (and C++) support.

Well, this certainly isn’t true for the moment.

There is a lot of buzz and excitement about Kotlin, and with so much talk and anticipation, entrepreneurs with apps for Android written in Java may think that Java is being phased out. But now, with Google’s official support for this nascent language – Kotlin tools are included with Android Studio 3.0 by default – Android mobile app owners have lots of reasons to be excited, because many new enhancements are being introduced and opportunities are opening up. Kotlin has been widely regarded as the primary alternative to Java (the default language for Android development) for a while. Kotlin is built by JetBrains, who (it is worth noting) is also responsible for developing the JetBrains IntelliJ Java IDE, which Google’s own Android Studio is based on. It’s pretty straight forward, but in Kotlin there are a few different ways to solve the problem of defining a logger.In May 2017, the Android team at Google announced first-class support for Kotlin, a statically typed programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). In Java, having a static property for something like a Logger is a very common use case. It was our first Kotlin migration and getting to know the Kotlin language better was/is a lot of fun, but also confusing at times. While doing so we’ve learned quite a few things along the way and I created some notes that I wanted to share in case somebody else runs into the same issues. Development Migrating a Spring Boot service from Java 11 to KotlinĪt my current project we’ve just finished migrating a Spring Boot 2.1.x service from Java 11 to Kotlin.