Using Kotlin for Android Development
- Less code combined with greater readability. Spend less time writing your code and working to understand the code of others.
- Mature language and environment. Since its creation in 2011, Kotlin has developed continuously, not only as a language but as a whole ecosystem with robust tooling. Now it’s seamlessly integrated in Android Studio and is actively used by many companies for developing Android applications.
- Interoperability with Java. You can use Kotlin along with the Java programming language in your applications without needing to migrate all your code to Kotlin.
- Support for multiplatform development. You can use Kotlin for developing not only Android but also iOS, backend, and web applications. Enjoy the benefits of sharing the common code among the platforms.
- Easy learning. Kotlin is very easy to learn, especially for Java developers.
- Big community. Kotlin has great support and many contributions from the community, which is growing all over the world. According to Google, over 60% of the top 1000 apps on the Play Store use Kotlin.