Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

The structure of Kotlin code – revisited

We have already seen that each time we create a new Android project, we also create a new package; this is a kind of container for the code that we write.

We have also learned about and played around with classes. We have imported and taken direct advantage of classes from the Android API, such as Log and Toast. We have also used the AppCompatActivity class but in a different manner to that of Log and Toast. You might recall that the first line of code in all our projects so far, after the import statements, used the : notation to inherit from a class:

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

When we inherit from a class, as opposed to just importing it, we are making it our own. In fact, if you take another ...