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Learn Kotlin Programming - Second Edition

By : Stephen Samuel, Stefan Bocutiu
Book Image

Learn Kotlin Programming - Second Edition

By: Stephen Samuel, Stefan Bocutiu

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a general-purpose programming language used for developing cross-platform applications. Complete with a comprehensive introduction and projects covering the full set of Kotlin programming features, this book will take you through the fundamentals of Kotlin and get you up to speed in no time. Learn Kotlin Programming covers the installation, tools, and how to write basic programs in Kotlin. You'll learn how to implement object-oriented programming in Kotlin and easily reuse your program or parts of it. The book explains DSL construction, serialization, null safety aspects, and type parameterization to help you build robust apps. You'll learn how to destructure expressions and write your own. You'll then get to grips with building scalable apps by exploring advanced topics such as testing, concurrency, microservices, coroutines, and Kotlin DSL builders. Furthermore, you'll be introduced to the kotlinx.serialization framework, which is used to persist objects in JSON, Protobuf, and other formats. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with all the new features in Kotlin and will be able to build robust applications skillfully.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamental Concepts in Kotlin
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Section 2: Practical Concepts in Kotlin
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Section 3: Advanced Concepts in Kotlin

Imports

To enable classes, objects, interfaces, and functions to be used outside of the declared package, we must first import them. We do this using the import keyword, and then listing the class, object, interface, or function to be imported:

    import com.packt.myproject.Foo 

In the preceding example, the Foo class was imported from the com.packt.myproject package.

Wildcard imports

If we have a bunch of imports from the same package, then to avoid specifying each import individually, we can import the entire package at once using the * operator.

If we have several imports from the same package, then to avoid listing each import on a single line, all the classes and interfaces from a package can be imported at once. This...