Converting a byte array into a hex string

As I am on Kotlin 1.3 you may also be interested in the UByte soon (note that it's an experimental feature. See also Kotlin 1.3M1 and 1.3M2 announcement)

E.g.:

@ExperimentalUnsignedTypes // just to make it clear that the experimental unsigned types are used
fun ByteArray.toHexString() = asUByteArray().joinToString("") { it.toString(16).padStart(2, '0') }

The formatting option is probably the nicest other variant (but maybe not that easily readable... and I always forget how it works, so it is definitely not so easy to remember (for me :-)):

fun ByteArray.toHexString() = joinToString("") { "%02x".format(it) }

printf does what we want here:

fun ByteArray.toHexString() : String {
    return this.joinToString("") {
        java.lang.String.format("%02x", it)
    }
}