Why does Android generate a Java class from my Kotlin class

Question

I'm working through a build problem. Basically I have a simple Kotlin class MyClass.kt. It looks ok, Android studio thinks it's ok. No squiggly lines etc.

But when building I'm getting

...\build\tmp\kapt3\stubs\debug\com\loughnane\access\MyClass.java:7: error: cannot find symbol
private ClassFromOtherModule classFromOtherModule;

When I open the class it is clearly the equivalent java code for my class except it's missing the import statement.

I don't think anyone can really diagnose what it's not importing the class from my other module in the generated code when the kotlin code is ok. But why is it generating java code in the first place? This is a pure kotlin project.

Answer 1

Because Kotlin uses JVM (Java Virtual Machine), so basically JVM only understands Java byte code. So, Kotlin code must be compiled to Java byte code to run, then JVM handles the rest.