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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Beginning Your Kotlin Adventure 2. Laying a Foundation FREE CHAPTER 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

Laying a Foundation

This chapter is largely devoted to the fundamental building blocks that are core elements of the Kotlin programming language. Each one may seem insignificant by itself, but combined together, they create really powerful language constructs. We will discuss the Kotlin type system that introduces strict null safety and smart casts. Also, we will see a few new operators in the JVM world, and many improvements compared to Java. We will also present new ways to handle application flows and deal with equality in a unified way.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Variables, values, and constants
  • Type inference
  • Strict null safety
  • Smart casts
  • Kotlin data types
  • Control structures
  • Exceptions handling
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Android Development with Kotlin
Published in: Aug 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781787123687
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