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Explore New Language: A Quick Introduction to Kotlin

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In the first 9 years after Android’s birth, Java was the only language used to develop Android applications. Although Google introduced NDK in Android 1.5 to support the development of Android applications using C and C++, it never challenged the dominant role of Java.

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Guo, L. (2022). Explore New Language: A Quick Introduction to Kotlin. In: The First Line of Code. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1800-1_2

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