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by mpetkevicius 2559 days ago
What do you mean by "instead"? It seems to me they support both languages as equals (the Android documentation contains examples in both languages) and have no plans of ditching Java.
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A month ago (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/google-io-...):

”Today we’re announcing another big step: Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first. Many new Jetpack APIs and features will be offered first in Kotlin. If you’re starting a new project, you should write it in Kotlin”

“Just use Kotlin” doesn’t help for the licensing issue, though, if you keep using Oracle’s JVM.