We can't tell you how much we love this library. It is that significant that in our Android chapter we are dedicating a few pages to it. Kotlin as a language can be used in multiple places, for example, Spring Boot, Android, JavaScript, and so on. While Anko is focusing on making Android app development easier and faster, it has all those optimizations, tricks, and magic that is missing in Kotlin.
Anko consists of several sets of APIs, originally mentioned at https://github.com/Kotlin/anko:
- Anko commons: This is a helper library full of APIs for intents, dialogs, logging, and so on
- Anko layouts: This is a cool new way to write dynamic Android layouts. It's fast and type-safe
- Anko SQLite: This is a package ...
