App Development with Kotlin: Here’s What Makes It Interesting
It comes to no wonder when someone states Java as an answer for the best programming language to Android app development. The almost two-decade-old language has been ruling the Android development paradigm worldwide. Before we jump onto Kotlin’s features that differentiate it in the Android app development space, take a quick look at the brief history of Kotlin: In 2011, a team of JetBrains who have created the very popular Java IDE- IntelliJ, unearthed the first version of Kotlin which is famously known as Java virtual machines (JVM). The statically-typed language that’s 100% interoperable with Java was used by the developers to build full-fledged Android applications even before the Google announcement. Let’s view the benefits that Kotlin offers when leveraged in Android app development:
SAY NO TO VERBOSITY The developers like the clean, and concise coding as they can be read and write onthe-fly and is less susceptible to bugs. However, this is not the event with Java. The number of lines of code needs to be written for every small function, but in Kotlin, the same function can be written in comparatively lesser lines of code that reduces the code length by 20%.