State of Kotlin on Android

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Claimed adoption numbers land hard: 80% of top 1,000 apps contain Kotlin and 60% of Android developers use it, with an analysis reporting a ~10% reduction in crash users after adoption. Build and tooling changes are concrete: Kotlin DSL for Gradle, KAPT fixes, Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) showing 2x faster processing versus KAPT, JVM IR backend and a frontend rewrite promising ~2x compile speed, Room KSP beta, a Coroutines Debugger landing, and ART becoming an updateable mainline module in Android 12.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:55IDE performance improvements
3. 4:25Compiler Architecture
4. 9:04Kotlin Android Extensions deprecation

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