It's safe to say that Android is definitely moving away from Java in terms of new language features. I mean, if you want to support older Android versions and u

It's safe to say that Android is definitely moving away from Java in terms of new language features. I mean, if you want to support older Android versions and use modern Java features or newer parts of standard libraries, you'll usually have to rely on desugaring or making sure you're using classes that are supported in Android. IMO, Android is moving away from modern versions of Java. Java and its underlying standard library will always play a big role in Android development. The way I see it, Kotlin makes a lot of sense for Android development because Kotlin can introduce new things in its standard library that make older versions of Java look ancient. It's not like you can use new Java features in Android, so using Kotlin makes people not care as much about new features of Java that are only available in modern versions of Java.