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Spend less time writing your code and working to understand the code of others.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_11"><p><span class="control" id="-f0kgt1_19">Fewer common errors</span>. Apps built with Kotlin are 20% less likely to crash based on <a href="https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/fewer-crashes-and-more-stability-with-kotlin-b606c6a6ac04" id="-f0kgt1_20" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google's internal data</a>.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_12"><p><span class="control" id="-f0kgt1_21">Kotlin support in Jetpack libraries</span>. <a href="https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose" id="-f0kgt1_22" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jetpack Compose</a> is Android's recommended modern toolkit for building native UI in Kotlin. <a href="https://developer.android.com/kotlin/ktx" id="-f0kgt1_23" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">KTX extensions</a> add Kotlin language features, like coroutines, extension functions, lambdas, and named parameters to existing Android libraries.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_13"><p><span class="control" id="-f0kgt1_24">Support for multiplatform development</span>. Kotlin Multiplatform allows development for not only Android but also <a href="https://kotlinlang.org/lp/multiplatform/" id="-f0kgt1_25" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">iOS</a>, backend, and web applications. <a href="https://developer.android.com/kotlin/multiplatform" id="-f0kgt1_26" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Some Jetpack libraries</a> are already multiplatform. <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/" id="-f0kgt1_27" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Compose Multiplatform</a>, JetBrains' declarative UI framework based on Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, makes it possible to share UIs across platforms – iOS, Android, desktop, and web.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_14"><p><span class="control" id="-f0kgt1_28">Mature language and environment</span>. Since its creation in 2011, Kotlin has developed continuously, not only as a language but as a whole ecosystem with robust tooling. Now it's seamlessly integrated into <a href="https://developer.android.com/studio" id="-f0kgt1_29" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android Studio</a> and is actively used by many companies for developing Android applications.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_15"><p><span class="control" id="-f0kgt1_30">Interoperability with Java</span>. You can use Kotlin along with the Java programming language in your applications without needing to migrate all your code to Kotlin.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_16"><p><span class="control" id="-f0kgt1_31">Easy learning</span>. Kotlin is very easy to learn, especially for Java developers.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_17"><p><span class="control" id="-f0kgt1_32">Big community</span>. Kotlin has great support and many contributions from the community, which is growing all over the world. Over 95% of the top thousand Android apps use Kotlin.</p></li></ul><p id="-f0kgt1_6">Many startups and Fortune 500 companies have already developed Android applications using Kotlin, see the list on <a href="https://developer.android.com/kotlin/stories" id="-f0kgt1_33" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Google website for Android developers</a>.</p><p id="-f0kgt1_7">To start using Kotlin for:</p><ul class="list _bullet" id="-f0kgt1_8"><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_34"><p>Android development, read <a href="https://developer.android.com/kotlin/get-started" id="-f0kgt1_36" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google's documentation for developing Android apps with Kotlin</a>.</p></li><li class="list__item" id="-f0kgt1_35"><p>Developing cross-platform mobile applications, see <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-multiplatform-dev/multiplatform-create-first-app.html" id="-f0kgt1_37" data-external="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Get started with Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS</a>.</p></li></ul><div class="last-modified">Last modified: 20 August 2024</div><div data-feedback-placeholder="true"></div><div class="navigation-links _bottom"><a href="server-overview.html" class="navigation-links__prev">Kotlin for server side</a><a href="wasm-overview.html" class="navigation-links__next">Kotlin/Wasm</a></div></article><div id="disqus_thread"></div></div></section></main></div><script src="static/v3/app.js"></script></body></html>