Kotlin Programming Cookbook

Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By: Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

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Overview of this book

The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language. The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin. This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java.

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

Free Chapter

Installation and Working with Environment

Introduction

Creating Kotlin Android project

How to use Gradle to run Kotlin code

How to run a Kotlin compiled class

How to build a self-executable JAR with Gradle and Kotlin

Reading console input in Kotlin

Converting Java code to Kotlin and vice versa

How to write an idiomatic logger in Kotlin

Escaping for Java identifiers that are keywords in Kotlin

Disambiguating using the "as" keyword to locally rename the clashing entity

Doing bit manipulations in Kotlin

Parsing String to Long, Double, or Int

Using String templates in Kotlin

Control Flow

Introduction

Assigning result to an expression using the if keyword

Using range with the when expression

Using when with custom objects

Using try–catch as an expression

How to write a swap function in Kotlin using the also function

How to throw a custom exception in Kotlin

How to make a multiconditional loop in Kotlin

Classes and Objects

Introduction

Initializing body of constructor

Converting one data type into another

How to type check an object

How to work with an abstract class in Kotlin

How to iterate over a class's properties in Kotlin

How to work with inline properties

How to work with nested class

Getting class in Kotlin

Working with delegated properties

Working with enums

Functions

Introduction

Specifying default values in functions

Using named arguments in functions

Creating the RecyclerView Adapter in Kotlin

Creating getter setters in Kotlin

Passing variable arguments to a function

Passing a function as a parameter to another

Declaring a static function

Using the use keyword in Kotlin

Working with closures

Function literals with receivers

Working with anonymous functions

Object-Oriented Programming

Introduction

Working with interfaces in Kotlin

How to implement complicated interfaces with multiple overridden methods in Kotlin

How to extend a class in Kotlin (Inheritance and Extension functions)

How to work with Generics in Kotlin

How to implement polymorphism in Kotlin

Restricting class hierarchies

Collections Framework

Introduction

How to merge two collections

Splitting original collection into pair of collections

Sorting a list by specified comparator

Sorting in descending order

Parsing a JSON response using Gson

How to filter and map using lambda expressions

How to sort a list of objects and keep null objects at the end

How to implement a lazy list in Kotlin

How to pad a string in Kotlin

How to flatten an array or map

How to sort collection by multiple fields in Kotlin

How to use limit in Kotlin list

How to create a 2D array in Kotlin

How to skip the first "n" entries in Kotlin

Handling File Operations in Kotlin

Introduction

Reading from files using InputReader

Reading all lines in a file using InputReader

Reading line by line using InputReader

Reading from files using BufferedReader

Reading all lines in a file using BufferedReader

Reading line by line using bufferedReader

Reading string and JSON over network

Anko Commons and Extension Function

Introduction

Setting up Anko with Gradle

Extending Android framework using extension function

Using extensions as properties

Using intents with Anko

Making a call intent using Anko

Sending a text intent using Anko

Browsing the web browser using Anko

Sharing some text using intents in Anko

Sending an email using Anko

Creating Android dialogs with Anko

Showing an alert dialog with a list of text items

Using Anko in Views

Logging using Anko

Handling dimensions with Anko

Version checking on Android

Anko Layouts

Introduction

Setting up Anko library for Anko layouts in Gradle

Creating user-interface programmatically

Working with the old code of XML layouts

Using the provided AnkoComponent interface

Setting theme for Android views in Anko

Setting layout parameters for Anko views

Adding listeners to Anko views

Inserting XML layouts into DSL

Converting XML files into DSL

Showing Snackbar

Showing Toasts

Accessing views using synthetic properties

Accessing views of view groups using extension functions

Databases and Dependency Injection

Introduction

Using SQLite database in Kotlin

Creating database tables

Injecting dependencies in Kotlin

Reading data from database

Converting database cursor into list of objects

Using parseOpt for nullable object

Inserting data into database

Creating singletons in Kotlin

Using Dagger 2 with Kotlin

Using Butterknife with Kotlin

Networking and Concurrency

Introduction

How to fetch data over network

How to create data class in Kotlin

How to copy data class with modifications

How to parse JSON data from network to data class

How to download a file in Kotlin

How to use RxJava and Retrofit with Kotlin

How to make an endless list using RecyclerView

How to use Anko to run background tasks with Kotlin in Android

How to use coroutines to achieve multithreading

Lambdas and Delegates

Introduction

Click listeners using lambdas

Using lazy delegate in Kotlin

Using the observable delegate

Using vetoable delegate

Writing your own delegates

Using the lateinit modifier

Working with SharedPreferences

Creating a chain of multiple lets in Kotlin

Creating global variables

Testing

Introduction

Unit testing Kotlin code

Unit testing with Mockito

Running instrumentation tests

Writing JUnit rules in Kotlin (@Rule)

Acceptance tests using Espresso Kotlin

Writing assertEquals in Kotlin

Web Services with Kotlin

Introduction

How to run the application on Tomcat

Setting up dependencies for building RESTful services

How to create a REST controller

Creating the Application class for Spring Boot

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Introduction

Android apps are a fascinating piece of technology. The apps developed on Android have worldwide appeal and audience. However, that has posed serious challenges for developers. The challenge is with updating APIs, platforms, and varied device capabilities. For example, if you are an Android developer, you have to rely on Java 6 if you want to support all API levels in Android. Java 6 is obsolete now, so much so that even its successor, Java 7, is kind of obsolete today. There was a great need for modern language for Android, which has built a trillion dollar industry around it and has influenced billions of lives. True, we have Java 8 now, but we can only use it if we are developing Android apps for API level 24 and above. However, that’s equivalent to targeting only 9% of Android devices as of 2017; clearly, this isn’t the way to go.

All is not lost though, and thanks to the JVM, we can write Android apps using any language that produces JVM compatible bytecode on compilation. So theoretically, we can use Clojure, Groovy, Scala, and Kotlin, but Kotlin is the best alternative among all, why? It's because in April 2017, Google announced Kotlin as an official language for Android development.

Some of the biggest tech companies such as Pinterest, Uber, Atlassian, Coursera, and Evernote are now using Kotlin in their Android apps. This wide adoption by them already speaks a huge volume for Kotlin. The 100% interoperability with Android and Java has helped Kotlin in its adoption. Kotlin is much easier to work with than Java and, apart from Android apps, you can also build web-apps with it. So, this chapter will introduce you to Kotlin and help you get started with this awesome piece of technology.

In this chapter, we will first see how to set up the environment to begin working with Kotlin.

Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By: Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

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