Learn Kotlin for Android Development: The Next Generation Language for Modern Android Apps Programming

ISBN-13: 9781484244661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 508 str.

Peter Spath

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Your First Kotlin App: Hello Kotlin

Chapter 2: Classes And Objects: Object Orientation Philosophy

Chapter 3: Classes at Work: Properties And Functions

Chapter 4: Classes And Objects: Extended Features

Chapter 5: Expressions: Operations on Data

Chapter 6: Comments in Kotlin Files

Chapter 7: Structural Constructs: Loops, Decisions And Scopes

Chapter 8: Exceptions: If Something Goes Wrong

Chapter 9: Data Containers: Arrays And Collections

Chapter 10: True, False And Undecided: Nullability

Chapter 11: Handling Equality

Chapter 12: Back to Math: Functional Programming

Chapter 13: About Type Safety: Generics

Chapter 14: Adding Hints: Annotations

Chapter 15: Using The Java And Kotlin APIs

Chapter 16: The Collections API

Chapter 17: More APIs

Chapter 18: Working in Parallel: Multithreading

Chapter 19: Using External Libraries

Chapter 20: XML And JSON

Appendix A: Solutions to Exercises

O autorze

Peter Späth consults, trains/teaches and writes books on various subjects, with a primary focus on software development. With a wealth of experience in Java-related languages, the release of Kotlin for building Android Apps made him enthusiastic about writing books for Kotlin development in the Android environment. He also graduated in 2002 as a physicist and soon afterward became an IT consultant, mainly for Java related projects.

Blurb

Build Android apps and learn the essentials of the popular Kotlin programming language and APIs. This book will teach you the key Kotlin skills and techniques important for creating your very own Android apps. Apart from introducing Kotlin programming, Learn Kotlin for Android Development stresses clean code principles and introduces object-oriented and functional programming as a starting point for developing Android apps. 

After reading and using this book, you'll have a foundation to take away and apply to your own Kotlin-based Android app development. You'll be able to write useful and efficient Kotlin-based apps for Android, using most of the features Kotlin as a language has to offer. 

You will:

• Build your first Kotlin app that runs on Android
  
• Work with Kotlin classes and objects for Android
  
• Use constructs, loops, decisions, and scopes 
  
• Carry out operations on data 
  
• Master data containers, arrays, and collections
  
• Handle exceptions and access external libraries