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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)

Behavioral patterns

Behavioral patterns are useful when we need to change an algorithm followed by objects dynamically, or to implement a special type of communication between instances. Using this type of template, we can observe state changes or send special commands to a certain object.

This section covers the following patterns:

  • Observer
  • Strategy
  • Command
  • State
  • Chain of responsibility
  • Visitor

Observer

The Observer pattern allows an object to determine the state change of another object. An instance that is interested can subscribe and immediately be notified when the value of a certain field is changed. The following diagram shows this case:

The preceding diagram contains the TextChangeListener interface, which is...