Shifting away from Java, which we currently use for Android development, and over to Kotlin is not a trivial task. Meta’s Android repository is very large and reaches across our family of apps and technologies, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Portal, and the Quest.
So it only makes sense that we would shift our Android development at Meta to Kotlin as we work to make our development workflows more efficient. In recent years, Kotlin has become a popular language for Android development. We’re open sourcing various examples and utilities we used to manipulate Kotlin code as part of this migration.As of today, our Android codebase contains over 10 million lines of Kotlin code.Kotlin is a popular language for Android development and offers some key advantages over Java.We’re sharing lessons learned from shifting our Android development from Java to Kotlin.
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