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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

Chapter 9. Anko Layouts

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

  • Setting up Anko library for Anko layouts in Gradle
  • Creating user-interface programmatically
  • Working with the old code of XML layouts
  • Using the provided AnkoComponent interface
  • Setting theme for Android views in Anko
  • Setting layout parameters for Anko views
  • Adding listeners to Anko views

  • Inserting XML layouts into DSL

  • Converting XML files into DSL

  • Showing Snackbar

  • Showing Toasts

  • Accessing views using synthetic properties

  • Accessing views of view groups using extension functions