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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)

Creational patterns

When we want to make the process of object creation more abstract or determine a certain type of object dynamically, we should consider using creational patterns. In addition, you can specify the order of field initialization or make the process of object creation more flexible. It's worth mentioning that since Kotlin has many more modern features in comparison with Java, the implementation of certain patterns may differ significantly. It's better to demonstrate this through the use of an example.

This section covers the following patterns:

  • Builder
  • Factory method
  • Abstract factory
  • Singleton

Builder

The Builder pattern is useful when we need to initialize many fields during new object creation...