Mastering Kotlin

Creating and working with Java classes from Kotlin

The following snippet illustrates a simple Java class with two fields and associated getters:

// basic Java classpublic class Developer {    private String name;    private String favoriteLanguage;    public Developer(String name, String favoriteLanguage) {        this.name = name;        this.favoriteLanguage = favoriteLanguage;    }    public String getName() {        return name;    }    public String getFavoriteLanguage() {        return favoriteLanguage;    }}

This Developer class is representative of any simple model object representing a person. Even though Developer is implemented in Java, we can still use it from Kotlin, as demonstrated in the following snippet:

// Kotlin function creating a new Developer object and accessing the ...