The Kotlin Advantage: Android, Backend, and Multiplatform

Kotlin is no longer just “the Android language.” It is a concise, expressive, and multi-purpose language that is transforming how we build backend services, share logic across mobile platforms, and create declarative UIs.

This session is designed for software engineers of all backgrounds—Backend devs, iOS devs, and returning Android devs—who want to understand what the hype is about.

The Goal: To get you excited about writing code again. We will use Android (via Jetpack Compose) as our “visual playground,” but the core focus is on the Kotlin language itself: its philosophy, its powerful concurrency model (Coroutines), and its expanding ecosystem.

What you will learn:

The Joy of Syntax: How to express complex ideas concisely using Data Classes, Extensions, and DSLs.

Concurrency Solved: Understanding Coroutines and Flow—why they are safer and easier than Threads or Rx.

Declarative UI: Building a modern Material 3 app using Jetpack Compose (similar to SwiftUI/React).

The Universal Language: A deep dive into how the code we write can be shared with iOS (KMP) or run on the Server (Ktor).