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Mastering Kotlin for Android Development [Video]

By : Marko Devcic
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Mastering Kotlin for Android Development [Video]

By: Marko Devcic

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Kotlin is a programming language intended to be a better Java, and it's designed to be usable and readable across large teams with skill and discipline variances. Kotlin is a language that helps developers build amazing applications in an easy and effective way. </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">The video begins by giving you strong grasp of the Kotlin features in context, independent of any platform. We continue by exploring all the features of Kotlin language that make the language better alternative to Java. It will show you the environment setup, and the difficulty level will grow steadily with the features covered next. </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Moving on, we’ll introduce you to using the IntelliJ IDE, which plays an integral role in Kotlin development. We’ll cover Kotlin’s basic programming concepts such as functions, lambdas, properties, object-oriented code, safety aspects, type parameterization, and finally concurrency, which will guide you to write Kotlin’s code to production. By the end of the video, you will be proficient in using Kotlin for any kind of app development.</span></p> <h2><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h2> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">This course takes a step-by-step approach, showing you through all the features of the Kotlin language.</span></span></p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 2
Kotlin Basics
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Section 1
Properties, Late Initialized Properties
In this video, we will see what the properties in Kotlin are and learn how they are different from Java. - Explore keywords for declaring properties. Type inference - Learn to declare a read only property, and a mutable property - Understand how to call and initialize properties from Kotlin and Java