Write More Robust and Maintainable Android Apps with Kotlin
"Peter Sommerhoff takes a practical approach to teaching Kotlin by
providing a larger set of code listings that demonstrate language
features and by guiding readers through the development of two Android
apps step by step. . . . Peter finds a good balance between what is
essential and what can be left to readers, so this book is an efficient
yet comprehensible source for starting programming with Kotlin."
-Bernhard Rumpe, Professor of Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen
University
The Kotlin language brings state-of-the-art programming techniques and
constructs to Android development. Kotlin for Android App
Development will help you rapidly understand Kotlin's principles and
techniques, apply Kotlin in production app development, integrate Kotlin
with existing Java code, and plan a migration to Kotlin, if you choose.
If you have at least basic programming experience (with any language),
Peter Sommerhoff's well-crafted overview and examples will help you get
quickly up-to-speed with the Kotlin language, its constructs, and its
advanced functional and object-oriented capabilities.
Once you've mastered these foundations, Sommerhoff walks you through two
complete app development projects, introducing best practices and
emerging patterns for writing code that's robust, concise, readable, and
highly performant.
- Understand Kotlin's goals, principles, advantages, design, and
constructs
- Take full advantage of functional programming in the Kotlin
environment
- Write more concise and reusable code using Kotlin's object-oriented
features
- Interoperate with existing Java code, and plan a migration to Kotlin
- Use coroutines to efficiently handle concurrency
- Capture data via third-party APIs, map it to internal data
representations, and present it to users
- Master best practices for architecting Kotlin Android apps
- Improve productivity and readability by creating simple
domain-specific languages in Kotlin
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