Why Kotlin for android development

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Why Kotlin for android development

Module 1: Introduction to Kotlin

What is Kotlin?

• Kotlin is developed by Jetbrains. Offically relased in 2016

• Kotlin is a statically-typed, general-purpose programming language. It is widely used to develop android applications.

• It runs on JVM so it can be run anywhere java can runs.

• Used to developed

  • Android Apps
  • Server Side Apps
  • and much more

Why Kotlin?

• Kotlin removes boilerplate codes from java.

• It provides many features more than jvms based languages.

• Concise

• Null Safty

• Interportability

• Toolfriendly

• And much more.

• Use playground: https://play.kotlinlang.org

• Setting up the development environment (IDE, SDK, etc.)

  • To run programs without IDE just install java and install kotlin compiler. Kolin Compiler Link: (img)[https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.2.21]

  • Set the path

  • now write kotlin program and save the program with .kt file extension

fun main(){
    println("First program")
}

• Now compile and run kotlin program with given command

//compile
kotlinc filename.kt -include-runtime -d hello.jar
//run
java -jar hello.jar