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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By : Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko
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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)

Calling Java code in Kotlin

In this section, we will learn how to use Java code in a Kotlin file. For the sake of simplicity, begin by creating a package and adding both Java and Kotlin files in one place, as we know that Kotlin makes it possible to keep both Java and Kotlin files in one project. So, we have two Java classes, called CallJava and Shape, and in the same folder we have one Kotlin file, called FromKotlin:

Let's start with the Java static variable and function.

Calling static variables and functions

Open the CallJava file and add one static variable message:

public static String message = "Hello from Java";

As well as this, include one static method, add, which adds two variables and displays a...