Kotlin: Next level of Android Development
summary
Kotlin claims mainstream Android status after Google’s 2017 announcement and JetBrains’ decade of design since 2010; adoption hits ~15% of projects (reported earlier) and companies like Square, Coursera and Netflix use it. Key concrete features: null safety that prevents NullPointerException, concise data classes with copy/equality/toString, extension and top-level functions, property delegation, and the Gradle Kotlin DSL. Multiplatform work compiles to JVM, JS and native with expect/actual modules and an active Slack community and Android Studio conversion tools.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Kotlin
- 1:57Kotlin ecosystem and growth
- 7:21Safety and null handling
- 13:27Object-oriented improvements
- 18:05Conciseness and extensions
- 24:21Functional programming
- 30:05Multi-platform development
- 37:55Getting started and resources
