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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

Implementing the Strategy pattern

The Strategy design pattern is used to provide an interchangeable set of strategies that can be applied to a given input and return an output of a specific type. We can understand the concept of a strategy as an action or an algorithm that can be applied to the input. A mechanism responsible for processing input should be able to switch between provided strategies at runtime. To illustrate the Strategy pattern, we are going to implement a text-formatting mechanism that allows us to apply a transformation to the input text and print it to the console. We are going to implement a class called Printer, which will provide a printText(text: String) function for printing the text to the console. Before printing out the text to the console, the Printer class will perform a transformation of the given text parameter according to the selected text formatting...

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