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

by Peter Späth

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484244661
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/30/2019
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	508
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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