Kotlin - brings potential to Android's App Development

We use a programming language to built applications, solve problems which make our life easier, sophisticated and moreover full of potential. These are some reason why we love to use a programming language could be it for its own way to tackle things in the best manner.

History

 Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed general-purpose programming language. Designed and developed by Jetbrains, licensed to Apache License 2.0, with an extension of .kts.Kotlin is officially supported by Google for mobile development for android, Kotlin is alternate to standard Java compiler. Kotlin is being Google's preferred language for Android App development since the 7th of May 2019.

Adoption

• According to Jetbrain's blog, Kotlin is used by Coursera, Netflix, Uber, J.P Morgan, HSBC and many more.
• According to Microsoft, Kotlin is a trend to build applications for Android.
• According to Google, Kotlin is adopted by major developers of  Square and  Expedia and many more.

Reasons to answer "Why Kotlin?"

• An open-source platform
• Reliability
• Simple interface and interphase
• Secure
• Optimized

Kotlin Contribution to Cloud

• Create and deploy autoscaling backends for mobile apps.
• Usefully managed MySQL / PostgreSQL / Firebase for application database
• Optimized for Google Kubernates
• Use IntelliJ with Google Cloud Tools to add Google Cloud API and deploy to App Engine

Summary

In this article we learned about the history of Kotlin, the contribution of Kotlin in Cloud, adoption of Kotlin in industry and the most important, why we should try out Kotlin. As mentioned that each and every programming language has its own positiveness and should be utilized well, thus these were about Kotlin. The best way to understand a programming language is to start researching about it, below I will discuss the important link which will help you to earn some knowledge about the Kotlin and will make a decision.

Important Links that might help you

• Kotlin -Kotlin
• Wikipedia - Kotlin - Wikipedia
• Jet Brains- Kotlin (GitHub) -GitHub