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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)

The map() function

One of the most well known higher-order functions on collections is map().

Let's say you have a function that receives a list of strings and returns a new list of the same size containing each string concatenated to itself:

val letters = listOf("a", "b", "c", "d")

println(repeatAll(letters)) // [aa, bb, cc, dd]

The task is quite trivial:

fun repeatAll(letters: List<String>): MutableList<String> {
val repeatedLetters = mutableListOf<String>()

for (l in letters) {
repeatedLetters.add(l + l)
}
return repeatedLetters
}

But for such a trivial task, we had to write quite a lot of code. What would we have to change in order to capitalize each string instead of repeating it twice? We would like to change only this line:

repeatedLetters.add(l + l) ----> repeatedLetters.add(l.toUpperCase...