google never says it’s foss and it makes sense why theyd not foss it, extend and extinguish. flathub says proprietary, wikipedia says both, im very confused
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and is there no other way to make kptlin code?
Kotlin? You have options.
The regular FOSS Intellij Idea is the premier Kotlin IDE and can do Android too. Though Google is usually a slog to throw their AGP integration code over the fence which sucks because projects sometimes upgrade their AGP quite aggressively.
There’s always the command line tools with gradle 😉
The code itself is just text, an IDE just gives you fancy integration.