The brevity of Kotlin vs Java is astonishing (or maybe the verbosity of Java vs Kotlin is astonishing). The worst part of Android development, so far, for me, has been just how much code it requires to do <i>anything</i>.<p>Even with a relatively nice and declarative development API (which Android provides), the amount of code to put anything on the screen, much less accomplish any useful work, has always put me off of building anything of note on the platform. My brain turns off when there&#x27;s so much reading to be done to derive any meaning from a function; e.g. &quot;What does this do?&quot;...three dense pages of code later...&quot;Ah, it saves the current state to storage.&quot;<p>In short, I&#x27;m pretty excited about Kotlin. Maybe I&#x27;ll finally start working on Android apps, beyond mere tinkering.