What is the difference between textView.setText(string) and textView.text = $string

Question

Hi I am making a app with Kotlin and I found that I can both use

textView.setText(str)

and

textView.text =         


        

Answer 1

As in the Kotlin, you are not using findViewById

so to access your textView, import statement must be like this

import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main..*

And textView.text = $str is the Synthetic Property access provided by Kotlin Plugin for android

You can use both, not much difference in the usability, but for the easier code writing this would be better

For more information, read this https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/android-plugin.html