Android actually now has some Java 8 feature support out-of-the-box [0] though most are API 24+. After porting our code base to Kotlin we found it provides mor

Android actually now has some Java 8 feature support out-of-the-box [0] though most are API 24+. After porting our code base to Kotlin we found it provides more benefits over Java than just being less typing / "syntactic sugar". To name a few: - First class functional support (streams feel clunky in comparison). - Extension functions [1]. - Nullable types (compile-time null checking). - Less verbose as types declarations are optional in many situations. - Great interop & tooling from JetBrains makes a slow transition from Java -> Kotlin pretty seamless. [0] https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/java8-support.html https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/java8-... [1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html