Hi, anyone know why I am getting this as an error in kotlin but not in java? It is not allowing project to build either

kotlin offers string interpolation with the

$

sign hence, if you use

$

in a string kotlin will expect the next characters to be a variable name

See the documentatino: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/basic-types.html#string-templates

Ha I see, is there a way I can achieve the same thing?

You need to escape the `$`:

\$

Thanks