Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of Kotlin's standard library depends on the Java Class Library, but type inference allows its syntax to be more concise. Kotlin mainly targets the JVM, but also compiles to JavaScript (e.g., for frontend web applications using React) or native code (via LLVM); e.g., for native iOS apps sharing business logic with Android apps.

On 7 May 2019, Google announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers.Since the release of Android Studio 3.0 in October 2017, Kotlin has been included as an alternative to the standard Java compiler. The Android Kotlin compiler produces Java 8 bytecode by default (which runs in any later JVM), but lets the programmer choose to target Java 9 up to 16, for optimization, or allows for more features; has bidirectional record class interoperability support for JVM, introduced in Java 16, considered stable as of Kotlin 1.5.

This course will take you through a lot of the Kotlin programming concepts.

Among them being:

1.datatypes in kotlin

2.dynamic vs static typing

3. smart cast

4. explicit cast

5. 0perators

6. referential vs structural equality and if else statement

7. nullable types and safe call

8.elvis operator

9.return keyword & safe cast operator

10.not null assertion

11When

12.while & do while loop

13.For loop

14.Generics

15.Collections

16.Overloading functions

17.extension functions

18.Some standard library functions

19.Some functional programming concepts

–Lambda & Anonymous function

–higher order functions

20.Object oriented programming concepts

–Class

–Constructor

–Interface

–Visibility modifiers

–Inheritance

-Abstract class

-Data class

-Enum class

-Singleton & Companion object

-polymorphism