Android: A quick Kotlin eksperience

Benefits of using Kotlin

Original Presentation: Android – A quick Kotlin Eksperience

1.No Semi-Colon
2.Default Values
3.Extension Functions
4.Data Classes
5.Parcelize
6.Unit Functions
7.Null Operations

No Semicolons

This is probably the thing smallest things but has a huge effect on readability of code. A couple things to note is that there’s no new keyword and you don’t need to declare the type.

Default Values

Data Classes – Code

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Kotlin data class benefits

1.The properties declared in the constructor: this technically is not exclusive to a data class, but it avoids all the boilerplate of getters and setters, in addition to the constructor

2.Provides the equals() & hashCode() functions

3.Provides a copy() method, very useful when we use immutable objects.

Parcelize – Code

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The old implementation of Parcelize, required you to write a writeToParcelize class and create a new Creator class and was generally more work than it should have been. The more parameters you had in the Model Class the longer your code would inevitably become