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Android Development with Kotlin

You're reading from   Android Development with Kotlin Enhance your skills for Android development using Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123687
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marcin Moskala Marcin Moskala
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Igor Wojda Igor Wojda
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Beginning Your Kotlin Adventure FREE CHAPTER 2. Laying a Foundation 3. Playing with Functions 4. Classes and Objects 5. Functions as First-Class Citizens 6. Generics Are Your Friends 7. Extension Functions and Properties 8. Delegates 9. Making Your Marvel Gallery Application

Beginning Your Kotlin Adventure

Kotlin is great language that makes Android development easier, faster, and much more pleasant. In this chapter, we will discuss what Kotlin really is and look at many Kotlin examples that will help us build even better Android applications. Welcome to the amazing journey of Kotlin, that will change the way you think about writing code and solving common programming problems.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • First steps with Kotlin
  • Practical Kotlin examples
  • Creating new Kotlin project in Android Studio
  • Migrating existing Java project to Kotlin
  • The Kotlin standard library (stdlib)
  • Why Kotlin is a good choice to learn
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Android Development with Kotlin
Published in: Aug 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781787123687
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