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Android Development with Kotlin

You're reading from   Android Development with Kotlin Enhance your skills for Android development using Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787123687
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marcin Moskala Marcin Moskala
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Igor Wojda Igor Wojda
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Preface 1. Beginning Your Kotlin Adventure FREE CHAPTER 2. Laying a Foundation 3. Playing with Functions 4. Classes and Objects 5. Functions as First-Class Citizens 6. Generics Are Your Friends 7. Extension Functions and Properties 8. Delegates 9. Making Your Marvel Gallery Application

Combination of named arguments and lambda expressions


Using default named arguments and lambda expressions can be really useful in Android. Let's look at some practical Android examples. Let's suppose we have a function that downloads elements and shows them to the user. We will add a few parameters:

  • onStart: This will be called before the network operation
  • onFinish: This will be called after the network operation
fun getAndFillList(onStart: () -> Unit = {}, 
    onFinish: () -> Unit = {}){ 
        // code 
    } 

Then, we can show and hide the loading spinner in onStart and onFinish:

    getAndFillList( 
        onStart = { view.loadingProgress = true } , 
        onFinish = { view.loadingProgress = false } 
    ) 

If we start it from swipeRefresh, then we just need to hide it when it finishes:

getAndFillList(onFinish = { view.swipeRefresh.isRefreshing = 
   false }) 

If we want to make a quiet refresh, then we just call this:

    getAndFillList() 

Named argument syntax and lambda expressions...

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