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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By : Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko
Book Image

Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By: Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko

Overview of this book

Kotlin is an object-oriented programming language. The book is based on the latest version of Kotlin. The book provides you with a thorough understanding of programming concepts, object-oriented programming techniques, and design patterns. It includes numerous examples, explanation of concepts and keynotes. Where possible, examples and programming exercises are included. The main purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of Kotlin features such as classes, data classes, and inheritance. It also provides a good understanding of design pattern and how Kotlin syntax works with object-oriented techniques. You will also gain familiarity with syntax in this book by writing labeled for loop and when as an expression. An introduction to the advanced concepts such as sealed classes and package level functions and coroutines is provided and we will also learn how these concepts can make the software development easy. Supported libraries for serialization, regular expression and testing are also covered in this book. By the end of the book, you would have learnt building robust and maintainable software with object oriented design patterns in Kotlin.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about one of the most exciting features of Kotlin: interoperability. Here, we can call Kotlin code in Java and vice versa. We started this chapter by calling Java static variables and functions in Kotlin, then we moved onto the Java collections, and we explored some examples of calling Java classes in Kotlin.

We then discussed how to handle the Kotlin reserve words and utilized Kotlin written code in Java with variables, functions, extension functions, and the Kotlin class. We also discussed the replacement of Kotlin filenames and function names by using a Kotlin-provided JVM annotation. Finally, we had a quick look at how to call Kotlin's object class in Java. In next chapter we will discuss about regular expression and serialisation in kotlin.