Kotlin Inheritance

In this tutorial you will learn about the Kotlin Inheritance and its application with practical example.

Kotlin Inheritance

Inheritance is mechanism in which child class aquires all the properties and behaviors of parent class.It represent IS-A relationship. Inheritance is used to achieve Method Overriding and Code Reusability.

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Syntax of Inheritance in Kotlin:

Example: In below example we have created two class one is Parentclass and ChildClass. We will use Parentclass function in child class.

ParentClass.kt : Here created welcome function and define class as open so that we can use it in child class.

ChildClass.kt: Here we have extend ParentClass so that we can use it in this class.

Output: Output of this code will look like below image, It prints the ParentClass.kt’s welcome function which is called by our child class.

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In this tutorial we have learn about the Kotlin Inheritance and its application with practical example. I hope you will like this tutorial.