Kotlin Andriod Introduction
In 2017, an Android team announced Kotlin as an official language for Android app development. After this announcement a large number of Android users began adopting it.
Features of using Kotlin for Android development
- Kotlin is compatible with old JDK 6 means we can run kotlin application on an older android device with no any issue.
- Kotlin is a functional language. There is no need to write lots of code.
- We can easily migrate the old java codebase to kotlin. There is automated java to kotlin converter included in kotlin plugin.
- Kotlin is fully interoperable with Java, which allowing us to use all existing android libraries in kotlin applications.
- It run fast on any android application.
- For the java developers, it is very easy to start with kotlin.
- We can easily migrate the old java codebase to kotlin. There is automated java to kotlin converter included in kotlin plugin.
- It supports scalability to expand the application for a massive number of users.
Andriod development tool
Kotlin has rich set of tools for Android development.
- Android Studio
- Eclipse
- Fabric
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Corona