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Programming Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126367
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Bocutiu Stefan Bocutiu
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Stephen Samuel Stephen Samuel
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 2. Kotlin Basics 3. Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin 4. Functions in Kotlin 5. Higher Order Functions and Functional Programming 6. Properties 7. Null Safety, Reflection, and Annotations 8. Generics 9. Data Classes 10. Collections 11. Testing in Kotlin 12. Microservices with Kotlin 13. Concurrency

Arrays

We have already addressed what an array is in the previous section: Class Hierarchy. Now it is time to have a look at how you work with arrays in a bit more detail.

Declaring and initializing arrays can be done like this:

    val intArray = arrayOf(1, 2, 3, 4) 
    println("Int array:${intArray.joinToString(",")}") 
    println("Element at index 1 is:${intArray[1]}") 
 
    val stringArray = kotlin.arrayOfNulls<String>(3) 
    stringArray[0] = "a" 
    stringArray[1] = "b" 
    stringArray[2] = "c" 
    //stringArrays[3]="d" --throws index out of bounds exception 
    println("String array:${stringArray.joinToString(",")}") 
 
    val studentArray = Array<Student>(2) { index -> 
      when (index) { 
        0 -> Student(1, "Alexandra", "Brook") 
        1 -> Student(2, "James", "Smith") 
        else ->throw IllegalArgumentException...
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