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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria
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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By: Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

Overview of this book

The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language. The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin. This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


In this chapter, you will be introduced to recipes related to object-oriented programming in Kotlin. Using an OOP approach, you can divide complex problems into smaller problems by creating objects. There are a few differences in Kotlin's style of OOP as compared to Java—for example, in Kotlin, all the classes are closed (final) by default, and if you want them to be extensible, you need to make them open by using an open keyword. Not only for classes—even the methods are final by default, and you need an open keyword for them as well. With Kotlin much less code is needed to work with classes and objects. Oh! By the way, did I tell you that we don't even need to use the new keyword while creating the object? So, creating a new object in Kotlin is as simple as this:

var person=Person()

The preceding code will create a mutable object of type Person, because we have used var as a modifier. A mutable object means that it can change its value. If you want to create an immutable object...