Mobile App Development | API Design Deficiencies

Kotlin’s strengths outweigh the language’s setbacks. There are definite limitations within Java that impede Android API design. Kotlin is inherently lightweight, clean and far less verbose, especially in terms of writing callbacks, data classes, and getters/setters. In other words, Kotlin was specifically designed to improve existing Java models by offering solutions to API design deficiencies.

Kotlin addresses a number of Java-induced weaknesses:
Brevity
A lot of developers praise Kotlin for being concise. This is a quality Java is not known for; however, readability should always take priority over concision.



Yes, the succinct nature of Kotlin uncomplicates a developer’s job and leaves less room for error, but Kotlin doesn’t practice concision for concision’s sake. Boilerplate code is a problem to read through and leads to more bugs and wasted time to try to identify them.


It may not seem like much, but the Kotlin version of this calculator is written in half the lines of code it took to program the function in Java. Brevity is a crucial factor for productivity. Writing large projects becomes easier when a developer is given more power for every line of code. A key observation here is Kotlin does not overlook comprehension for the sake of brevity. The syntax is concise readable and still substantial.
Interoperability
Interoperability is Kotlin’s core purpose. From the beginning, the project’s intention has been to use existing knowledge and expertise to make every library out there available to Kotlin programmers.

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