Which class in Kotlin is the base and inherited by all other classes?

In Kotlin, the base class from which all other classes implicitly inherit is the Any class. It is analogous to the Object class in Java.

The Any class contains three default methods:

• equals() — for comparing objects
• hashCode() — for obtaining the hash code of an object
• toString() — for obtaining the string representation of an object

Example:

fun main() {
    val obj: Any = "Example"
    println(obj.toString())  // Outputs: Example
}