What is a Unit in Kotlin?

June 9, 2021 • 57 words • 1 min read

#Kotlin

Unit corresponds to the void keyword in Java.

What is a `Unit` in Kotlin?

If you have a function that does not return a value, you can return a Unit object.

Generally, you would return a Unit in Kotlin where you would traditionally return a void in Java.

fun doesntReturnAnythign(): Unit {
    val one = 1
}