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Mastering Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering Kotlin Learn advanced Kotlin programming techniques to build apps for Android, iOS, and the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838555726
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Kotlin – A Modern Solution to Application Development FREE CHAPTER
2. A New Challenger Approaches 3. Programmers' Multi-Tool – Flexible, Expressive, and Concise 4. Section 2: Putting the Pieces Together – Modeling Data, Managing State, and Application Architecture
5. Understanding Programming Paradigms in Kotlin 6. First-Class Functions 7. Modeling Real-World Data 8. Section 3: Play Nice – Integrating Kotlin With Existing Code
9. Interoperability as a Design Goal 10. Crossing Over – Working across Java and Kotlin 11. Controlling the Story 12. Baby Steps – Integration through Testing 13. Section 4: Go Beyond – Exploring Advanced and Experimental Language Features
14. Practical Concurrency 15. Building Your Own Tools – Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) 16. Fully Functional – Embracing Functional Programming 17. Section 5: The Wide World of Kotlin – Using Kotlin across the Entire Development Stack
18. Kotlin on Android 19. Kotlin and Web Development 20. Introducing Multiplatform Kotlin 21. Taming the Monolith with Microservices 22. Practical Design Patterns 23. Assessments 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Kotlin includes robust support for a variety of different OOP concepts. It has been designed based on years of research and experience from other languages to make OOP easier. Kotlin natively supports concepts such as delegation and singletons. Kotlin provides rich data types such as data classes to reduce boilerplate and sealed classes to help to model restricted class hierarchies. Interfaces in Kotlin bring features from newer versions of Java as well as new features such as interface properties, which can be used in domains such as Android where newer Java features may not be available. Kotlin's feature set allows you to more easily organize your day in whatever way makes sense to you and enables developers to write concise, flexible, object-oriented code.

In the next chapter, we'll focus on why interoperability between Kotlin and Java is such a big part of...

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