How to get binary representation of Int in Kotlin

Rashi Karanpuria picture Rashi Karanpuria · May 4, 2018 · Viewed 13.6k times · Source

Is there a method that can be used to get an Integer's representation in bits? For example when provided: 0 gives 0 4 gives 100 22 gives 10110

Answer

Rashi Karanpuria picture Rashi Karanpuria · May 4, 2018

Method 1: Use Integer.toBinaryString(a) where a is an Int. This method is from the Java platform and can be used in Kotlin. Find more about this method at https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#toBinaryString(int)

Note: This method works for both positive and negative integers.

Method 2: Use a.toString(2) where a is an Int, 2 is the radix Note: This method only works for positive integers.