Kotlin for Android

July 2, 2019

Kotlin can help make your working as an Android developer a lot easier. Kotlin is a modern statically typed programming language that will upgrade your productivity and increase your developer happiness.
The first stable 1.0 release, Unlike other languages like Swift, the Kotlin release has gone through many stages before releasing.
This means that there are hardly any problems when working with Kotlin, everything works as you would expect.

Some of the pointers explaining why kotlin for android–

• Seamlessly integrated with Android Studio
• Concise to reduce the amount of boilerplate code you need to write.
• Expressive to make your code more readable and understandable.
• Safe to avoid entire classes of errors such as null pointer exceptions.
• Versatile for building server-side applications, Android apps or frontend code running in the browser.
• Interoperable to leverage existing frameworks and libraries of the JVM with 100 percent Java interoperability.
• Kotlin is multi-platform
• It’s very easy to learn
• One of the great advantages of Kotlin is that a Java developer can understand most of the code without ever having written a line of Kotlin.
• No more finding views by ids
• Kotlin makes Android development more fun.