Kotlin Programming Cookbook

Discover Android programming and web development by understanding the concepts of Kotlin Programming

Key Features
Practical solutions to your common programming problems with Kotlin 1.1
Leverage the functional power of Kotlin to ease your Android application development
Learn to use Java code in conjunction with Kotlin
Book Description
The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language.

The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin.

This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java.

What you will learn
Understand the basics and object-oriented concepts of Kotlin Programming
Explore the full potential of collection frameworks in Kotlin
Work with SQLite databases in Android, make network calls, and fetch data over a network
Use Kotlin's Anko library for efficient and quick Android development
Uncover some of the best features of Kotlin: Lambdas and Delegates
Set up web service development environments, write servlets, and build RESTful services with Kotlin
Learn how to write unit tests, integration tests, and instrumentation/acceptance tests.
Who This Book Is For
This book will appeal to Kotlin developers keen to find solutions for their common programming problems. Java programming knowledge would be an added advantage.

Table of Contents
Installation and working with Environment
Control flow
Classes and Objects
Functions
Object oriented programming
Collections Framework
Handling File operations in Kotlin
Anko Commons and Extension function
Anko Layouts
Databases and Dependency Injection
Networking and Concurrency
Lambdas and Delegates
Testing
Web services with Kotlin