Kotlin For Android Apps

Kotlin is an Android-compatible language that is concise, expressive, and designed to be type- and null-safe. It works with the Java language seamlessly, so it makes it easy for developers who love the Java language to keep using it but also incrementally add Kotlin code and leverage Kotlin libraries. Also, many Android developers have already found that Kotlin makes development faster and more fun, so we want to better support these Kotlin users.

Kotlin is a great fit for developing Android applications, bringing all of the advantages of a modern language to the Android platform without introducing any new restrictions:

• Compatibility: Kotlin is fully compatible with JDK 6, ensuring that Kotlin applications can run on older Android devices with no issues. The Kotlin tooling is fully supported in Android Studio and compatible with the Android build system.
• Performance: A Kotlin application runs as fast as an equivalent Java one, thanks to very similar bytecode structure. With Kotlin's support for inline functions, code using lambdas often runs even faster than the same code written in Java.
• Interoperability: Kotlin is 100% interoperable with Java, allowing to use all existing Android libraries in a Kotlin application. This includes annotation processing, so databinding and Dagger work too.
• Footprint: Kotlin has a very compact runtime library, which can be further reduced through the use of ProGuard. In a real application, the Kotlin runtime adds only a few hundred methods and less than 100K to the size of the .apk file.
• Compilation Time: Kotlin supports efficient incremental compilation, so while there's some additional overhead for clean builds, incremental builds are usually as fast or faster than with Java.
• Learning Curve: For a Java developer, getting started with Kotlin is very easy. The automated Java to Kotlin converter included in the Kotlin plugin helps with the first steps. Kotlin Koans offer a guide through the key features of the language with a series of interactive exercises. 

If want to learn kotlin, today now, please follow the following links

• Download an install Android Studio 3.0 Preview, which includes Kotlin support out of the box.
• Follow the Getting Started with Android and Kotlin tutorial to create your first Kotlin application.
• For a more in-depth introduction, check out the reference documentation on this site and Kotlin Koans.
• Another great resource is Kotlin for Android Developers, a book that guides you step by step through the process of creating a real Android application in Kotlin.
• Check out Google's sample projects written in Kotlin. Source content(KotlinLang)

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