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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering Android Development with Kotlin Deep dive into the world of Android to create robust applications with Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473699
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miloš Vasić Miloš Vasić
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Preface 1. Starting with Android 2. Building and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Screens 4. Connecting Screen Flow 5. Look and Feel 6. Permissions 7. Working with Databases 8. Android Preferences 9. Concurrency in Android 10. Android Services 11. Messaging 12. Backend and API 13. Tuning Up for High Performance 14. Testing 15. Migration to Kotlin 16. Deploying Your Application

Preparing the migration

As we said, we need to make a decision whether we will completely rewrite our modules into Kotlin or continue writing our code in Kotlin but keep its legacy in pure Java. What will we do? In this chapter, we will demonstrate a little bit of each.

Our current project, at this point, doesn't have anything to migrate. So, we will create some code. If you don't have the Java sources directory with the packages structure, create it. Now, add the following packages:

  • activity
  • model

These packages are equivalent to the packages we already have in our Kotlin source code. In the activity package, add the following classes:

  • The MigrationActivity.java code is as follows:
       package com.journaler.activity; 
 
       import android.os.Bundle; 
       import android.support.annotation.Nullable; 
       import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity...
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