Let’s examine how Android apps programmed using Kotlin could render Security By Obscurity ineffective. Kotlin is a statically-typed, general purpose language which was designed to interoperate fully with Java and the Java Virtual Machine. Android initially supported Kotlin in 2017 and it recently emerged as the preferred language Google recommends for Android app development. Kotlin Android apps offer a great example of why static analysis of binaries is better than static analysis of source code.
