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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

By : Samuel Urbanowicz
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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

By: Samuel Urbanowicz

Overview of this book

For developers who prefer a more simplistic approach to coding, Kotlin has emerged as a valuable solution for effective software development. The Kotlin standard library provides vital tools that make day-to-day Kotlin programming easier. This library features core attributes of the language, such as algorithmic problems, design patterns, data processing, and working with files and data streams. With a recipe-based approach, this book features coding solutions that you can readily execute. Through the book, you’ll encounter a variety of interesting topics related to data processing, I/O operations, and collections transformation. You’ll get started by exploring the most effective design patterns in Kotlin and understand how coroutines add new features to JavaScript. As you progress, you'll learn how to implement clean, reusable functions and scalable interfaces containing default implementations. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll discover recipes on functional programming concepts, such as lambdas, monads, functors, and Kotlin scoping functions, which will help you tackle a range of real-life coding problems. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with the expertise you need to address a range of challenges that Kotlin developers face by implementing easy-to-follow solutions.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Building strings based on dataset elements

Sometimes, we face the problem of generating text based on collections' elements. This is where the Iterable.joinToString() extension function can help. For example, we can consider working on an email-message-forwarding feature. When a user clicks the forward button, the original message's body text is concatenated, with the prefix looking something like this:

<br/>
<p>---------- Forwarded message ----------</p>
<p>
From: [email protected] <br/>
Date: 14/04/2000 <br/>
Subject: Any plans for the evening?<br/>
To: [email protected], [email protected]<br/>
</p>

In this recipe, we are going to implement a function that is going to generate the recipients' string, for example:

To: [email protected], [email protected]</br>

For a given list of Address type objects, it is defined...