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Programming Kotlin

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Programming Kotlin

Overview of this book

Quickly learn the fundamentals of the Kotlin language and see it in action on the web. Easy to follow and covering the full set of programming features, this book will get you fluent in Kotlin for Android.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Programming Kotlin
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Preface

Automatic creation of getters and setters


For a given var declaration in the constructor, the compiler will create the getters and setters automatically. Considering the title field, the compiler has actually created a getTitle and setTitle method. This means interacting with Java would now translate to calling these two methods:

public final java.lang.String getTitle();
Code:
0: aload_0
1: getfield      #11                 // Field title:Ljava/lang/String;
4: areturn
public final void setTitle(java.lang.String);
Code:
0: aload_1
1: ldc           #17                 // String <set-?>
3: invokestatic  #23                 // Method kotlin/jvm/internal/Intrinsics.checkParameterIsNotNull:(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/String;)V
6: aload_0
7: aload_1
8: putfield      #11                 // Field title:Ljava/lang/String;
11: return

The code is pretty straightforward. In the setter code body, see line 3, we have an implicit check for null values via the standard library method, checkParameterIsNotNull...