Kotlin Basics
Learn the basics of Android’s recommended programming language, Kotlin.
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Kotlin’s main features
JetBrains, the company behind popular IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, developed and released Kotlin in 2016. Kotlin is Google’s official language for Android development since 2017. Kotlin is a
Kotlin is a powerful and versatile language that offers many benefits for Android development. Kotlin’s great features for Android development include:
Concise syntax: Kotlin’s syntax is more concise than Java, with features like automatic type inference of expressions and string interpolation (i.e., substitution of values of variables into placeholders in a string). Kotlin’s concise syntax and reduced boilerplate code can help us write code faster and with fewer errors. ...