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Learn Kotlin by Developing Android Apps [Video]

By : Brandan Jones
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Learn Kotlin by Developing Android Apps [Video]

By: Brandan Jones

Overview of this book

<p>Kotlin has been making waves ever since it was open sourced by JetBrains in 2011; it has been praised by developers across the world and is already being adopted by companies. This video provides a detailed introduction to Kotlin that shows you all its features and will enable you to write Kotlin code to production. We start with the basics: get you familiar with running Kotlin code, setting up, tools, and instructions that you can use to write basic programs. Next, we cover &nbsp;object oriented code: functions and properties – all while using Kotlin’s new features.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>Practical, project-based approach</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 3
Connect Layouts and Widgets to Kotlin Functions
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Section 3
Convert Java to Kotlin
It's easy to learn Kotlin if you already know Java. It's also easy to convert a Java program to a Kotlin program, one line at a time. Simply use Android Studio's built in feature to convert Java to Kotlin. - Strategies for converting a java programmer to Kotlin - Borrow an existing Java networking utility - Convert the Java networking utility to Kotlin