Hi, is ktlint the go-to formatter (the 'prettier' or gofmt) of kotlin? My team is starting to use kotlin, and such a tool would help a lot to keep things tidy 🙂

Is a good tool to use, we use that in our projects because is easy to use and configure

Thanks 🙂

Detekt uses ktlint under the covers, and I think they're moving away from formatting. If you use Android Studio/IntelliJ, then set the Code Style to pre-defined Kotlin style (details in official docs), and use it for formatting. Can be done as part of committing to Git, assuming you're using Git, and IntelliJ to do commits.

😮, i just find out about detekt like two days ago, thanks for the clarification @Mike

Detekt is amazing for doing static analysis. I rely on IntelliJ for formatting.

ktlint didn't have some features we needed (until recently?) eg ability to auto fix indentation issues, so we actually set up CI to validate that IntelliJ auto formatting had been applied using an IntelliJ docker image somebody maintains

Detekt works great. It also provides a wrapper around Ktlint so you don’t need to pull in both detekt and ktlint