What is the difference between textView.setText(string) and textView.text = $string

Question

Hi I am making a app with Kotlin and I found that I can both use

textView.setText(str)

and

textView.text =         


        

Answer 1

Both works the same way.

Java Convention

textView.setText(“…”)

Kotlin Convention

textView.text=”…”

“Methods that follow the Java conventions for getters and setters (no-argument methods with names starting with get and single-argument methods with names starting with set) are represented as properties in Kotlin.”- documentation

thus textView.text=”…” instead of textView.setText(“…”) if you are using Kotlin to follow Kotlin Conventions.

Ref - Begin Kotlin; from an Activity, a Button and a TextView