Learn Kotlin for Android Development

1. Front Matter

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2. Your First Kotlin Application: Hello Kotlin

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3. Classes and Objects: Object Orientation Philosophy

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4. Classes at Work: Properties and Functions

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5. Classes and Objects: Extended Features

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6. Expressions : Operations on Data

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   Pages 137-153

7. Comments in Kotlin Files

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8. Structural Constructs

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9. Exceptions: If Something Goes Wrong

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10. Data Containers

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11. True, False, and Undecided: Nullability

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12. Handling Equality

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13. Back to Math: Functional Programming

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14. About Type Safety: Generics

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15. Adding Hints: Annotations

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16. Using the Java and Kotlin APIs

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17. The Collections API

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18. More APIs

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19. Working in Parallel: Multithreading

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20. Using External Libraries

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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. 


What You Will Learn

• 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
  

Who This Book Is For


Very little programming experience is required: no prior knowledge of Kotlin needed.  

• Kotlin
• learn
• skills
• Android
• development
• programming
• mobile
• wireless
• language
• source
• code
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• Leipzig, Germany

  Peter Späth

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.

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