Kotlin, the brainchild of the creators of IDE’s like AppCode, CLion, WebStorm, etc, has generated an enormous impact on the Android app development arena. It has paved the way for a host of modern features which its contemporary language does not carry. Most importantly, however, it has made interoperability between two languages, namely, Kotlin and Java, possible.
It is because of this compatibility feature that an Android app can be created and run on the Java Virtual Machine with different classes written in both Java and Kotlin! (Albeit, the Kotlin plugin would have to be installed to make this happen.)
Consequently, Kotlin has certain shortcomings. This is because, principally, Android was written in Java. Hence, many developers still rely on Java for Android app development. Let us examine the wide-ranging features of Kotlin that have upstaged its antecedent in multiple ways and helped the language garner greater traction from Android application developers.
- Less Codes, Easy Learning
- Interoperability
- Null Safety
- Cost-effectiveness
- Switching from Java to Kotlin
Kotlin has burgeoned the Android application development game into a definitively new era. It won’t be long until all Android applications development companies would be converting their apps to this new and developer-friendly language. With the Android app market experiencing a boom, Kotlin is undoubtedly an able successor to Java.