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Kotlin Blueprints

You're reading from   Kotlin Blueprints A practical guide to building industry-grade web, mobile, and desktop applications in Kotlin using frameworks such as Spring Boot and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788390804
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Akshay Chordiya Akshay Chordiya
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We have seen the power of Kotlin for Spring Boot. However, building a mobile application is different. It's much more compact compared to browser apps, they have to be delivered fast. It has to be 10 times faster in terms of processing user input.

Kotlin's features along with its compiler's support for the Android app development makes developing Android apps much easier, interesting, and productive. The biggest advantage of using Kotlin is its Null Safety feature. NullPointerException is the foe for any Android apps and is a nightmare for developers. Kotlin simply kills the possibility of NullPointerException. It also has a robust API also. Apart from Null Safety Kotlin has features such as extension function, Lambdas, delegated properties, and functions such as let, apply, with, and when. All this makes Android app development...

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