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Kotlin Programming By Example

By : Iyanu Adelekan
Book Image

Kotlin Programming By Example

By: Iyanu Adelekan

Overview of this book

Kotlin greatly reduces the verbosity of source code. With Google having announced their support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time learn how to create apps from scratch with Kotlin Kotlin Programming By Example takes you through the building blocks of Kotlin, such as functions and classes. You’ll explore various features of Kotlin by building three applications of varying complexity. For a quick start to Android development, we look at building a classic game, Tetris, and elaborate on object-oriented programming in Kotlin. Our next application will be a messenger app, a level up in terms of complexity. Before moving onto the third app, we take a look at data persistent methods, helping us learn about the storage and retrieval of useful applications. Our final app is a place reviewer: a web application that will make use of the Google Maps API and Place Picker. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience of of creating and deploying Android applications using Kotlin.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Creating views with Thymeleaf

As previously defined, a view is a representation of data that exists in and is generated by an application. Views are the primary points of interaction that a user has with an application built with the MVC pattern. The view layer may utilize different technologies to render information to a user. Spring supports a number of view options. These view options are also referred to as templates. Template support in a Spring application is provided by a template engine. Simply put, a template engine enables the utilization of static template files with the view layer of an application. A template engine may also be referred to as a template library. The following template libraries are available for use with Spring:

  • Thymeleaf
  • JSP/JSTL
  • Freemaker
  • Tiles
  • Velocity

This list is by no means intended to be exhaustive. There are a number of other template libraries...