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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

By : Miloš Vasić
Book Image

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

Converting classes


Finally, we will migrate our classes. We have two automatic options available. We will use both. Locate MigrationActivity.java and open it. Choose the Code | Convert Java file to the Kotlin file. It takes a couple of seconds to convert. Now, drag and drop the file from the Java package into the Kotlin sources package. Observe the following source code:

    package com.journaler.activity 
 
    import android.os.Bundle 
    import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity 
 
    import com.journaler.R 
 
    class MigrationActivity : AppCompatActivity() { 
 
      override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) { 
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) 
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main) 
      } 
 
      override fun onResume() { 
        super.onResume() 
      } 
 
    } 

As we have mentioned, fully automatic conversion doesn't give the perfect code. In the next section, we will do a refactoring and clean up. The second way to do the same thing is by...