What are the best languages for developing native Android applications?

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What are the best languages for developing native Android applications?

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Best languages for developing native Android applications	Price	Current stable version	Price
-- Kotlin	-	1.3	-
-- Java	-	10	Open source (free)
-- Mirah	-	-	-
-- HTML, CSS & JavaScript	-	-	-

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Kotlin

Top Pro

Concise

Drastically reduce the amount of boilerplate code you need to write. See More

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May be hard for programmers already used to imperative style to learn functional programming from Kotlin

Since Kotlin does not enforce any particular paradigms and is not purely functional, it can be pretty easy to fall back to imperative programming habits if a programmer comes from an imperative background. See More

Specs

Current stable version:1.3

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Safe

Avoid entire classes of errors such as null pointer exceptions. See More

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Amazing IDE support

Since Kotlin is made by Jetbrains (the developers of IntelliJ IDEA) so it stands to reason that the IntelliJ support for Kotlin is also great. See More

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Java interoperability

Since it runs on the JVM, Kotlin is 100% interoperable with Java and can use existing Java frameworks and libraries. See More

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No runtime overhead

Because the standard library is pretty small and tight, it mostly consists of focused extensions of the Java standard library. See More

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Easy to learn if you have prior programming experience

Kotlin's syntax is extremely easy to understand. The language can be picked up in a few hours just by reading the language reference. See More

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Java

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Current stable version:10

Price:Open source (free)

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What are the best languages for developing native Android applications?

4 Options Considered

Kotlin

My Recommendation for Kotlin

My Recommendation for Kotlin

Concise

May be hard for programmers already used to imperative style to learn functional programming from Kotlin

Safe

Amazing IDE support

Java interoperability

No runtime overhead

Easy to learn if you have prior programming experience

Java

My Recommendation for Java

My Recommendation for Java

Mirah

My Recommendation for Mirah

My Recommendation for Mirah

HTML, CSS & JavaScript

My Recommendation for HTML, CSS & JavaScript

My Recommendation for HTML, CSS & JavaScript

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