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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria
Book Image

Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By: Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Injecting dependencies in Kotlin


In Android development, Dagger 2 is the most popular dependency injection framework. You define the dependency objects, and with the help of a Dagger component, you inject it where you want. In this recipe, we will see how to inject the dependencies. We won't be going into the details of how to work with Dagger 2 in detail; for that, you can refer to the Using Dagger2 with Kotlin recipe in this chapter.

Getting ready

We will be using Android Studio 3.0 for this recipe. Ensure that you have its latest version.

How to do it…

When you've defined all the dependency objects you need in the module class, you can get the component. Let's take look at the mentioned steps:

  1. To inject the object, you just need to add the @Inject annotation before the variable, then the object will be injected there. Let’s look at the following example:
@Inject
lateinit var mPresenter:AddActivityMvpPresenter

We have also used the lateinit modifier to void null checks before using the variable...