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Kotlin Programming By Example

By : Iyanu Adelekan
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Kotlin Programming By Example

By: Iyanu Adelekan

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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Who this book is for

This book will be useful to readers of all ages, experience levels, and demographics. That being said, it was written primarily with beginners and experienced programmers who want to learn Kotlin in mind.

Over the course of writing this book, I paid special attention to the fact that beginners will need to be eased into topics and concepts. As such, the chapters of this book were written in ascending order of difficulty. If you are a beginner, this will enable you to learn as quickly as possible with as few hiccups as possible.

Fairly experienced readers are expected to move more quickly through this book than beginners—all things being equal. If you have prior experience of programming and application development, you may choose to first run through the code examples of this book to get a good feel for the topics covered and what to expect. Java developers in particular may be able to get away with diving right into the more advanced chapters of the book.

Regardless of which category of user you fall into, rest assured that there is something that has been written specially for you!