Yesterday I had a co-worker come to me with an interesting bug in a Kotlin class he was writing. He had a read-only property with an inline initializer like this: class MyProgressBar(context: Context) : ProgressBar(context) { val bounds = Rect() override fun setProgress(progress: Int) {…

If you convert an app from Java to Kotlin, will it take longer to compile? This is part 3 in a series of articles on Kotlin. Part 1 discussed converting an Android app from Java to Kotlin, and part 2 contains my thoughts on the Kotlin language. In an earlier…

In my last article, I talked about converting Java codebases to Kotlin, and about some of the libraries I like. Here, I’m going to talk about my thoughts on the Kotlin language itself and the way it interacts with Java. The Good There’s a lot to like about Kotlin. Some of the…

This is part one in a series of posts about Kotlin. Click here for part 2, where I discuss the design of the Kotlin language. I’ve been following the development of Kotlin for a while. Kotlin is a relatively new language that primarily targets the JVM, and is interoperable with…