Kotlin 1.1 brought many updates; one of the important ones was delegated properties. There are three types of delegated properties:
In this recipe, we will see how to work with these delegates. So let's get started.
Let's see a simple example of a delegated property:
- First, we will work with the lazy delegate property. Simply put, this delegate can suspend the object creation until we first access it. This is really important when you are working with heavy objects; they take a long time to be created—for example, when creating a database instance or maybe dagger components. Not only this, the result is remembered and the same...