Characterizing the transition to Kotlin of Android apps: a study on F-Droid, Play Store, and GitHub
Riccardo Coppola, Luca Ardito, Marco Torchiano · 2019
Context: Kotlin is a novel language that represents an alternative to Java, and has been recently adopted as a first-class programming language for Android applications. Kotlin is achieving a significant diffusion among developers, and several studies have highlighted various advantages of the language when compared to Java.