What's the Kotlin equivalent of Java's String[]?

Question

I see that Kotlin has ByteArray, ShortArray, IntArray, CharArray, DoubleArray, FloatArray, which are equivalent to byte[], short[], int[],char[], double[]

Answer 1

use arrayOf, arrayOfNulls, emptyArray

var colors_1: Array<String> = arrayOf("green", "red", "blue")
var colors_2: Array<String?> = arrayOfNulls(3)
var colors_3: Array<String> = emptyArray()

Answer 2

Those types are there so that you can create arrays of the primitives, and not the boxed types. Since String isn't a primitive in Java, you can just use Array<String> in Kotlin as the equivalent of a Java String[].