Since the article is talking about Android app development the answer is "yes" because that's what Google recommends for Android app development: it's the langu

Since the article is talking about Android app development the answer is "yes" because that's what Google recommends for Android app development: it's the language in which you're going to find sample code on Google's Android websites so yes, it's better in that respect. However, it's just one of several JVM languages so it's abilities in general are equivalent to Java or Scala or anything else that ultimately runs on the JVM.