Kotlin is developed by JetBrains, the company behind IntelliJ - the IDE that Android Studio is based on.

1. Abdulhadi ÇELENLİOĞLU
Senior Developer
SONY GSI
KOTLIN
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE

2. AGENDA
§ OVERVIEW
§ FEATURES
§ JAVA COMPARISON
§ HANDS-ON
§ Q & A

3. TIMELINE
Unveiled | July, 2011
Open Sourced | February, 2012
Kotlin v1.0 | February, 2016
Kotlin v1.2 | November, 2017

4. BUILD APPS FOR
JVM ANDROID NATIVE BROWSER

5. NULL SAFETY

6. ANDROID SUPPORT

7. SMART CAST

8. LEAN SYNTAX & CONCISE

9. OTHER FEATURES
• Inter-operable with Java
• High Order Functions
• Extension Functions
• Default and Named Arguments
• Multi-value Return from Function
• Data Class

10. WHAT’S THE CATCH?

11. WHAT’S THE CATCH?
• Build Time
• Extra Runtime Size
• (Initial) Readability of Code
• Lack of Official Support
• Smaller Community

12. TOOLS

13. USING

14. JAVA KILLER?

15. NEEDS MORE TIME!

16. SHOWTIME

17. Q&A

18. THANK YOU!