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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria
Book Image

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

Converting one data type into another


In Java, we used to typecast by appending the desired type in front of variables like this:

String a = Integer.toString(10)

Also, in Java, numeric is directly converted to larger numeric types, but in Kotlin, this feature is not there for type safety—so how can we change one type of object to another in Kotlin? We will see it in this recipe.

Getting ready

You need to install a preferred development environment that compiles and runs Kotlin. You can also use the command line for this purpose, for which you need Kotlin compiler installed, along with JDK. I am using the online IDE available at https://try.kotlinlang.org/ to compile and run my Kotlin code for this recipe.

How to do it...

Let's understand how to convert one data type into another by following the steps below:

  1. Let's try a very basic example—trying to convert an Int to Long and Float:
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    var a = 1
    var b: Float = a.toFloat()
    var c = a.toLong()
    println...