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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)

Easy class serialization on Android using the @Parcelize annotation

In this recipe, we are going to make use of the @Parcelize annotation to simplify the implementation of the Android Parcelable interface, allowing us to serialize objects efficiently. @Parcelize is available in the Kotlin Android Extensions plugin and provides automatic code-generation for Kotlin classes that implement the Parcelable interface.

Getting ready

We are going to implement the Android instrumented test case in order to verify the effect of a class serialization and deserialization in action. To make use of the Android KTX library, we need to add it to the project dependencies. In our case, we will need it in the android-test module. We can add it...