[izacus]

Nah. What drove the decision is that huge swaths of Android development community already adopted Kotlin and it's trivial to implement it in existing Android codebases. It's also built by a company with which Google already has partnership with (IntelliJ built both Kotlin and IDEA IDE which is the base for Android Studio).

[vickychijwani]

Yes, this is the only reason IMO. GP is reading too much into this.

Source: I closely follow all developments in the Android ecosystem, and have been doing so for over 2 years.