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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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Nate Ebel Nate Ebel
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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

Working with Kotlin from Java

Before considering the addition of Kotlin to your existing Java code base, you have to think about how the two languages will work together. While Java and Kotlin can work well together, it's not always possible to take full advantage of Kotlin features from Java. In this section, we'll explore how you can leverage Kotlin code from Java and where the rough edges might be.

Basic interop

At a basic level, working with classes, interfaces, and objects written in Kotlin from Java is seamless. You can instantiate and consume these objects and methods in the same way as you would for any other Java class. We'll take a look at some specific examples in the following sections.

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