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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

Describing our database


First thing we will do is describe our database by defining its tables and columns with proper data types. We will also define simple models that will represent our data. To do so, create a new package called database:

     com.journaler.database 

Then, create a new Kotlin class called DbModel. The DbModel class will represent the matrix for all database models of our application and will contain only the ID, since the ID is a mandatory field and will be used as a primary key. Make sure your DbModel class looks like this:

    package com.journaler.database 
 
    abstract class DbModel { 
      abstract var id: Long 
    } 

Now, when we define our starting point, we will define data classes that will actually contain data. Inside our existing package called model, create new classes--DbEntry, Note, and Todo. Note and Todo will extend Entry, which extends the DbModel class.

The Entry class code is as follows:

    package com.journaler.model 
 
    import android.location...