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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook Master the powerful Kotlin standard library through practical code examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837668
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuel Urbanowicz Samuel Urbanowicz
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Preface 1. Ranges, Progressions, and Sequences 2. Expressive Functions and Adjustable Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 3. Shaping Code with Kotlin Functional Programming Features 4. Powerful Data Processing 5. Tasteful Design Patterns Adopting Kotlin Concepts 6. Friendly I/O Operations 7. Making Asynchronous Programming Great Again 8. Best Practices for the Android, JUnit, and JVM UI Frameworks 9. Miscellaneous 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extending functionalities of classes

While working on implementing new features or refactoring of existing code, we often end up extracting some part of the code to functions in order to reuse them in different places. If the extracted function is atomic enough, we often end up exporting it to external utility classes whose primary purpose is to extend functionalities of existing classes. Kotlin provides an interesting alternative to the utility classes. It offers a built-in feature allowing us to extend functionalities of other classes with extension functions and extension properties.

In this recipe, we are going to extend the functionality of the Array<T> class and add a swap(a:T, b: T) extension function to it, which is responsible for changing places of a two given elements of the array.

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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook
Published in: Jul 2018
Publisher: Packt
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