The first developer preview of Android 14

Android 14 continues our work to improve your productivity as developers, along with enhancements to performance, privacy, security, and user customization. This preview is just the beginning, and we’ll have lots more to share as we move through the release cycle.

With this mental model you will have a better understanding of how the different phases in Compose work.

We plan to release one more traditionally-versioned release as Kotlin 1.9, which will also include updates from the ongoing development of the K2 compiler frontend as it approaches stabilization. There will be no Kotlin 1.10. The next major version after Kotlin 1.9 will be Kotlin 2.0.

in Kotlin, sometimes an object is fully capable of fulfilling a request (such as a function call) on its own, and in other cases, it might need to hand off the request to another object. Whether this happens in real life or in Kotlin, it’s called delegation.

We’ve developed a detailed guide for our employees’ career advancement, unique to each team. When expectations are communicated clearly, goals are more easily reachable and motivation increases.