Kotlin Basics

Learn the basics of Android’s recommended programming language, Kotlin.

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 statically typedIn statically typed languages such as Kotlin, Java, and C++, we explicitly mention the variable types, and the compiler knows the types of variables at compile time. However, Python is a dynamically typed language. programming language that’s more concise, safe, and interoperable than Java, the traditional language for Android development.

Kotlin is a powerful and versatile language that offers many benefits for Android development. Kotlin’s great features for Android development include:

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