© Peter Späth 2019
Peter SpäthLearn Kotlin for Android Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4467-8_15

15. Using the Java and Kotlin APIs

Peter Späth1 
(1)
Leipzig, Germany
 

Kotlin has a language kernel that handles classes, objects, properties, functions, structural constructs, and all that stuff. We’ve been talking about these a lot to this point. Once in a while we have mentioned and used the term Kotlin standard library without explicitly stating what that actually is. In real life a library is a place where extensive information is available. Whenever you need to know something you can go there and try to find a book that can show you what things are or how they work, or what you have to do to achieve something. For a computer language, ...

Get Learn Kotlin for Android Development: The Next Generation Language for Modern Android Apps Programming now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.