CHOOSING THE RIGHT PLATFORM FOR ANDROID APP DEVELOPMENT – KOTLIN VS. JAVA
Java is the first programming language which comes to your mind when you think about Android app development . Most of the Android apps are written in Java but you can also write Android apps in other language and compile it on Java Virtual Machine (JVM). One such recently popular JVM compatible language is Kotlin , which is the programming language from JetBrains. As an Android developer, you might be curious to know what benefits Kotlin offers as compared to Java before you make a decision to switch to Kotlin. First of all, let’s understand what is Kotlin and what it offers. What is Kotlin? Kotlin is a statically typed cross-platform, general-purpose programming language for Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and JavaScript. Since the release of Android Studio 3.0 in October 2017, Kotlin is included as an alternative to the standard Java compiler. With the latest release of Kotlin 1.3, JetBrains has introduced Kotlin/Native beta which allows compiling Ko...