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Kotlin Mock Interview🎤💻

Android Dev Nexus
7 min readOct 1, 2024

Welcome to yet another blog of our ongoing fun and engaging Interview Prep Series. In this blog we’ll walk you through some common Kotlin interview questions! One person plays the candidate, and the other plays the interviewer. Along the way, we’ll explore various Kotlin concepts, why they matter, and how to answer these questions during an interview. Reading this blog is sure to boost your confidence for Android tech interviews!

But before we dig in…here’s something we want to share and shhh 🤫…it’s a secret between us, okay 😉

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Interviewer:

Hey there! Thanks for joining us today. Let’s dive right in. Can you explain what makes Kotlin different from Java?

Candidate:

Sure! Kotlin is designed to be a modern, concise, and safe language that works well with Java. Some of the key differences are:

  • Null safety: Kotlin has built-in null safety, which helps avoid NullPointerExceptions (NPEs).
  • Type inference: In Kotlin, you don’t always need to declare the type explicitly, thanks to type inference.
  • Conciseness: Kotlin reduces boilerplate…

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