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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria
Book Image

Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By: Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

Overview of this book

The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language. The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin. This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Inserting data into database


Inserting data into the database using Anko SQLite is a piece of cake. In this recipe, we will learn how to do that.

Getting ready

I'll be using Android Studio 3 to write code. You can get started by adding anko-sqlite dependencies to your project by adding the following lines to your build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    compile "org.jetbrains.anko:anko-sqlite:$anko_version"
}

You can replace $anko_version with the latest version of the library.

How to do it…

Let's insert data into our database by following the mentioned steps:

  1. Let's start with our database helper, in which we will be creating a Requests table with the namemessage, and id fields, as follows:
class DatabaseHelper(ctx: Context) : ManagedSQLiteOpenHelper(ctx, "SupportDatabase", null, 1) {
    companion object {
        private var instance: DatabaseHelper? = null

        @Synchronized
        fun getInstance(context: Context): DatabaseHelper {
            if (instance == null) {
                instance...