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Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By : Alexey Soshin
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By: Alexey Soshin

Overview of this book

Design patterns enable you as a developer to speed up the development process by providing you with proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems, improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide good practices for programmers. The book begins by showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, explaining the basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns. From there, the book provides an in-depth explanation of the classical design patterns of creational, structural, and behavioral families, before heading into functional programming. It then takes you through reactive and concurrent patterns, teaching you about using streams, threads, and coroutines to write better code along the way By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Mediator

There's no way around it. The Mediator design pattern is simply a control freak. It doesn't like it when one object speaks to the other directly. It gets mad sometimes when that happens. No, everybody should speak only through him. What's his explanation? It reduces coupling between objects. Instead of knowing some other objects, everybody should know only him, the Mediator.

Trouble in the Jungle

Architectural jokes aside, we, the Maronic development team, have some real problems. And they're not related to code directly. As you may remember, our little indie company consists of only me, a canary named Michael that acts as a product manager, and two cat designers that sleep most of the day, but...