Since its announcement as an officially supported language for Android, Kotlin has experienced a huge rise in popularity. This proliferation in popularity is in many ways warranted as Kotlin is a modern and extremely well-designed language, which has many domains of application—web, mobile, and native to name a few. As a direct consequence of its rise in popularity, Kotlin has experienced steady growth over the years.
Kotlin Programming By Example
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Kotlin Programming By Example
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Overview of this book
Kotlin greatly reduces the verbosity of source code. With Google having announced their support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time learn how to create apps from scratch with Kotlin
Kotlin Programming By Example takes you through the building blocks of Kotlin, such as functions and classes. You’ll explore various features of Kotlin by building three applications of varying complexity. For a quick start to Android development, we look at building a classic game, Tetris, and elaborate on object-oriented programming in Kotlin. Our next application will be a messenger app, a level up in terms of complexity. Before moving onto the third app, we take a look at data persistent methods, helping us learn about the storage and retrieval of useful applications. Our final app is a place reviewer: a web application that will make use of the Google Maps API and Place Picker.
By the end of this book, you will have gained experience of of creating and deploying Android applications using Kotlin.
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
The Fundamentals
Building an Android Application – Tetris
Implementing Tetris Logic and Functionality
Designing and Implementing the Messenger Backend with Spring Boot 2.0
Building the Messenger Android App – Part I
Building the Messenger Android App – Part II
Storing Information in a Database
Securing and Deploying an Android App
Creating the Place Reviewer Backend with Spring
Implementing the Place Reviewer Frontend
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