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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By : Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko
Book Image

Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

By: Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko

Overview of this book

Kotlin is an object-oriented programming language. The book is based on the latest version of Kotlin. The book provides you with a thorough understanding of programming concepts, object-oriented programming techniques, and design patterns. It includes numerous examples, explanation of concepts and keynotes. Where possible, examples and programming exercises are included. The main purpose of the book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of Kotlin features such as classes, data classes, and inheritance. It also provides a good understanding of design pattern and how Kotlin syntax works with object-oriented techniques. You will also gain familiarity with syntax in this book by writing labeled for loop and when as an expression. An introduction to the advanced concepts such as sealed classes and package level functions and coroutines is provided and we will also learn how these concepts can make the software development easy. Supported libraries for serialization, regular expression and testing are also covered in this book. By the end of the book, you would have learnt building robust and maintainable software with object oriented design patterns in Kotlin.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Constructing a class with a constructor

When an object is created, all class members have to have an initial value. We can either initialize a property directly or the initial values can be provided by a constructor. A constructor is a special type of function that is used to initialize the properties of the class.

A constructor is invoked when the object is created, or, more specifically, when the space is allocated in the memory. This special function has two important characteristics:

  • Constructors can be declared with the constructor keyword
  • Constructors don't contain any return types, not even Units

In this section, we will learn about all of the different kinds of constructors that are provided by Kotlin. Let's start with the default constructor.

Default constructor...