Kotlin offers developers many time-saving features that help us create clean code. One of those features is the ability to drop the findViewById() method and replace it instead simply with the View’s id value. For example, here is an XML layout that was created in Android Studio. It includes the default EditText with an id of welcomeMessage.
The same layout is opened in Text mode below.
To access the TextView we need to use findViewById() and pass in the TextView‘s id attribute.
In lines 15-16 we get a reference to the TextView by passing findViewById it’s id. But with the introduction of Kotlin we not longer need to do this. We can simply call welcomeMessage.text = "Hi there!".
