Reasons to use Kotlin for Android development

Kotlin is a first-class language for Android, so it’s easy to create projects with Kotlin. Android is used with Kotlin code for autocomplete, lint checking, refactoring, debugging, and more.

Kotlin is considered to be a love language used for Android development. It fills the gap of missing modern language for the Android platform.

Core features of Kotlin

• In Kotlin, coding is more efficient with less time spent in code review.
• Kotlin’s smart extension functions help developers build clean APIs.
• Kotlin readers can see the code and run it, change it, play with it, and run it again.
• Kotlin code is more readable and understandable.
• Kotlin is versatile for building server-side applications.
• Kotlin is interoperable to use existing frameworks and libraries of the JVM with 100% Java interoperability.

Reason to use Kotlin for Android Development

• Compatible

Kotlin is fully compatible with JDK 6 using the existing framework and libraries of the JVM. The Kotlin tool is compatible with and supported by the Android build system.

• Performance:

Kotlin opens a new world of possibilities by creating and solving the same problems in a different way. It is easy to run and reduces source code, saving time and improving the performance of the application.

Time and efforts

For a Java developer, getting started with Kotlin is easy. The automated Java-to-Kotlin converter included in the Kotlin plugin helps with the first steps. This includes annotation processing, along with data binding and Dagger.

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