Also Koltin is meaningless without Java Virtual Machine, which is used to power most of Koltin existence[0], Gradle, Android Studio, thus the Android team keeps updating the Java support so that they don't lose access to the most used versions in Maven Central.
[0] - Kotlin Native and Kotlin Javascript are quite poor in available libraries
There is this little mobile phone platform out there.
It has moved to Kotlin, which is what Java should be. With a custom VM. And even now, Google is moving to Fuschia which is Dart based.
Nope, it is still Java, Kotlin is only the JetPack libraries.
https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture
Also Koltin is meaningless without Java Virtual Machine, which is used to power most of Koltin existence[0], Gradle, Android Studio, thus the Android team keeps updating the Java support so that they don't lose access to the most used versions in Maven Central.
[0] - Kotlin Native and Kotlin Javascript are quite poor in available libraries