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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By : Miloš Vasić
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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By: Miloš Vasić

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. As a language, it helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. This book begins by giving you a strong grasp of Kotlin's features in the context of Android development and its APIs. Moving on, you'll take steps towards building stunning applications for Android. The book will show you how to set up the environment, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the applications covered in the upcoming chapters. Later on, the book will introduce you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android development. We'll use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, which will guide you through writing Kotlin code in production. We'll also show you how to integrate Kotlin into any existing Android project.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

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; 
 
       import com.journaler.R; 
 
       public class MigrationActivity extends AppCompatActivity { 
 
        @Override 
      ...