Applied Kotlin for Android Application Development: Apply Kotlin and its best practices to build quality world-class applications

Yusuf Saber

₹9757.99

Video Apr 2018 2hrs 23mins 1st Edition

Yusuf Saber

₹9757.99

Video Apr 2018 2hrs 23mins 1st Edition

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Key benefits

A practical hands-on guide to understanding Kotlin's advanced features for Android Development
Learn how to make development much faster using a variety of Kotlin features
Build amazing apps and projects, and deploy/publish them on Google Play Store to get to grips with the Kotlin language

Description

Kotlin greatly reduces source code verbosity. With Google having announced its support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time to learn how to create apps from scratch with Kotlin The Applied Kotlin for Android Application Development course is for developers who have some experience in the basics of Kotlin and are ready to take the plunge into the more advanced stage. This course covers Kotlin's superpowers, as it were. You should already know the syntax, but now we will go over the things that make Kotlin stand out—such as inline functions and null safety.You will learn about Anko, a Kotlin library which makes Android application development faster and easier. It makes your code clean and easy to read and smoothes out the rough edges in the Android SDK for Java. You will also publish the app you built during the course to get an overall end-to-end experience of Kotlin Android application development. By the end of this course, you will have gained experience in creating and deploying Android applications using Kotlin. The code bundle for this video course is available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Applied-Kotlin-for-Android-Application-Development

Who is this book for?

This video course is for developers who have a basic understanding of Kotlin and now want to move on with Android development by covering some advanced concepts in Kotlin. A basic knowledge of Kotlin is recommended.

What you will learn

Implement Lambdas and higher-order functions in Kotlin.
Work with Interfaces to resolve overriding conflicts.
Explore concepts such as operator overloading, property delegation, and null safety in Kotlin.
Use Anko to make your code clean and easy to read, and smooth out the rough edges in the Android SDK for Java.
Deploy and publish your Android apps on Google Play Store.

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