What is the purpose of adding the dependency org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7
to an Android app module gradle file?
When creating a new project in Android Studio, the following line is added to the app module gradle file:
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
The purpose of this dependency is not to make Kotlin standard library functions available, as they are already available without it. So, what is its purpose?