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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By : Miloš Vasić
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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By: Miloš Vasić

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with different levels of knowledge. As a language, it helps developers build amazing Android applications in an easy and effective way. This book begins by giving you a strong grasp of Kotlin's features in the context of Android development and its APIs. Moving on, you'll take steps towards building stunning applications for Android. The book will show you how to set up the environment, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the applications covered in the upcoming chapters. Later on, the book will introduce you to the Android Studio IDE, which plays an integral role in Android development. We'll use Kotlin's basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, testing, and concurrency, which will guide you through writing Kotlin code in production. We'll also show you how to integrate Kotlin into any existing Android project.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


I hope you have enjoyed this book! This was a great journey! We began from nothing and started with learning the basics. Then, we continued toward the medium, difficult, and advanced topics about Android. This chapter allowed us the final word on the story about Android we wanted to tell you. We did a huge amount of work! We developed the application and went through the whole process of deployment, step by step.

What is next? Well, the next thing you should do is think about an application you want to build and start making it from scratch. Take your time. Don't rush yourself! During the development, you will discover many things we did not mention. Android is tremendously big! It can take years to know the entire framework. Many developers don't know every part of it. You will not be the only one. Continue your progress and do as much code as you can. It will improve your skills and make all that you learned routine to you. Do not hesitate! Get into the action! Good luck!