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Functional Kotlin

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Functional Kotlin

Overview of this book

Functional programming makes your application faster, improves performance, and increases your productivity. Kotlin supports many of the popular and advanced functional features of functional languages. This book will cover the A-Z of functional programming in Kotlin. This book bridges the language gap for Kotlin developers by showing you how to create and consume functional constructs in Kotlin. We also bridge the domain gap by showing how functional constructs can be applied in business scenarios. We’ll take you through lambdas, pattern matching, immutability, and help you develop a deep understanding of the concepts and practices of functional programming. If you want learn to address problems using Recursion, Koltin has support for it as well. You’ll also learn how to use the funKtionale library to perform currying and lazy programming and more. Finally, you’ll learn functional design patterns and techniques that will make you a better programmer.By the end of the book, you will be more confident in your functional programming skills and will be able to apply them while programming in Kotlin.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Subscribing and disposing


So, we have Observable (the thing that should be observed upon) and we have the Observer type (that should be observed), now what? How do we connect them? Observable and Observer are like an input device (be it keyboard or mouse) and the computer; we need something to connect them (even wireless input devices have some connectivity channels, be it Bluetooth or Wi-Fi).

The subscribe operator serves the purpose of the media by connecting an Observable interface to Observer. We can pass one to three methods (onNext, onComplete, and onError) to the subscribe operator, or we can pass an instance of the Observer interface to the subscribe operator to get the Observable interface connected with Observer.

So, let's look at an example now:

fun main(args: Array<String>) { 
    val observable = Observable.range(1,5)//1 
 
    observable.subscribe({//2 
        //onNext method 
        println("Next-> $it") 
    },{ 
        //onError Method 
        println("Error=&gt...