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Kotlin is a really powerful language aimed to write more code using less boilerplate. And this is specially true in Android. Apart from the language itself and its own classes, Kotlin also provides a good set of useful extensions for already existing Java classes. An example of this is the way to make a request to an API and download the result.
I know that a lot of different libraries already exist to help us do this task, and Kotlin can make use of them because of its interoperability with Java, but we sometimes use big libraries to commit small requirements only because it’s much simpler and less prone to errors.

To learn more about the Kotlin language, take a look at Resources to Learn Kotlin.


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