We touched upon properties briefly in Chapter 3, Object Oriented Programming in Kotlin. In this chapter, we will take a detailed look at them. You will learn about
General properties
Visibility
Lazy and late initialized
Delegated properties
When to use properties instead of methods
Furthermore, we will see how to use a Kotlin property from Java and we'll take a peek at the bytecode produced to understand what the compiler does. If you are familiar with C#, the information presented here will be familiar, after all the concept of properties was brought in from the .NET world.