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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Kotlin Programming Cookbook Explore more than 100 recipes that show how to build robust mobile and web applications with Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788472142
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aanand Shekhar Roy Aanand Shekhar Roy
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installation and Working with Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Control Flow 3. Classes and Objects 4. Functions 5. Object-Oriented Programming 6. Collections Framework 7. Handling File Operations in Kotlin 8. Anko Commons and Extension Function 9. Anko Layouts 10. Databases and Dependency Injection 11. Networking and Concurrency 12. Lambdas and Delegates 13. Testing 14. Web Services with Kotlin 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

In this chapter, you will be introduced to recipes related to object-oriented programming in Kotlin. Using an OOP approach, you can divide complex problems into smaller problems by creating objects. There are a few differences in Kotlin's style of OOP as compared to Java—for example, in Kotlin, all the classes are closed (final) by default, and if you want them to be extensible, you need to make them open by using an open keyword. Not only for classes—even the methods are final by default, and you need an open keyword for them as well. With Kotlin much less code is needed to work with classes and objects. Oh! By the way, did I tell you that we don't even need to use the new keyword while creating the object? So, creating a new object in Kotlin is as simple as this:

var person=Person()

The preceding code will create a mutable object of...

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