A. What’s new in Kotlin:
There’s an app that is being launched for the  Android TV, one that fits pretty well into the overall brand. That is “News About Android TVâ€, an app which curates all of the site’s content from various sources and makes it available for the users in a simple TV app. This is free to download on Google Play. What’s interesting about this app is that a lot of it was written in Kotlin.
B. What creates demand for Kotlin :
The dynamic world of Android Development is looking forward to the emergence of a new language that will bring a prominent change and ameliorate the process of development of diverse applications for Android. This has been named as Kotlin. This new language is high in demand since:
- It is developed and enhanced by Google.
- It has made app development easier and faster than ever before.
- It has made app development more convenient which has helped the developers in increasing their productivity.
C. What is Kotlin:
Kotlin  is a statically- typed programming language. A statically typed language is the one where the process of verifying and enforcing the constraints is done during the compile time. A deep insight into the language shows the following:
- The language runs on Java Virtual Machine.
- The language has been designed to be an industrial strength object oriented language which is slightly better than Java.
- The advent of the language will bring in a lot of big and small changes in Android Development.
D. Why is Kotlin Preferred over Java :
A thorough study on the language has proved Kotlin to be slightly better than Java. The study reveals the following facts that makes Kotlin preferred over Java .
- It’s an open source
- Kotlin compiles to JVM bytecode or JavaScript.
- Kotlin has a much smaller learning curve than Java.
- It imposes no runtime overhead.
- Kotlin possess better IDE support.
- Kotlin  allows the natives to run Kotlin application without JVM (not supported yet).
E. Where is Kotlin used:
One of the major applications of Kotlin is Android development. Kotlin has helped developers in making android development easier and convenient.
- It helps in making user friendly apps for various Android phones in very less time thus ensuring a significant increase in their productivity .
- It has is used in app development .The apps developed are more robust , user friendly and exhibit various features imbibed in them.
- Kotlin has helped in increasing the app performance.
