Why did Google desire a better platform than Java? You might be able to guess where I'm going if you clicked on the article. To the cheers of the Android app development community, Google announced their support for Kotlin at the annual I/O developer conference. Where does it leave Java, though? How does it alter the creation of mobile app development ? What initially prompted Google to favour Kotlin over Java? First of all, despite wishing it could, Google does not plan to eliminate the entire Java ecosystem. However, it has consistently looked for superior programming languages over Java for the creation of Android apps. It might have begun in 2010 when Oracle, the new owner of Sun Microsystems, sued Google for allegedly stealing the Java API used to create the Android OS. The nine-year-old legal dispute has undergone numerous changes. The fact that APIs were not protected by copyright was the best defence Google had in the case. Oracle, however, argued that they we...