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Kotlin Programming Cookbook: Explore more than 100 recipes that show how to build robust mobile and web applications with Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Android
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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
- ISBN-101788472144
- ISBN-13978-1788472142
- PublisherPackt Publishing
- Publication dateJanuary 25, 2018
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.5 x 0.98 x 9.25 inches
- Print length434 pages
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About the Author
Aanand Shekhar Roy is a freelance Android developer. His mobile engineering career includes working for various startups and companies, such as Netherlands-based ConceptOffice and U.S.-based startups Consciously.Life and NextFan-FantasyIndyCar.
He is also a mentor for the Associate Android Developer Fast Track program by Google on Udacity and mentors a team of 20 software developers. He is also a writer at AndroidPub.
Rashi Karanpuria is a professional Android developer. She started her career by working on a wallet app for a New Zealand based Fintech startup. She has developed projects in various domains such as IOT, AdTech, Business, Social, and live streaming apps. Over the years, she has acquired a deep understanding of the user experience needed to develop a successful mobile application. She combines her design skills with scalable and maintainable code using best practices to create quality products.
Product details
- Publisher : Packt Publishing
- Publication date : January 25, 2018
- Language : English
- Print length : 434 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1788472144
- ISBN-13 : 978-1788472142
- Item Weight : 1.63 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.98 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #7,018,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #401 in Functional Software Programming
- #1,818 in Java Programming
- #2,016 in Mobile App Development & Programming
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About the authors

Aanand is an Android and iOS developer and has created products that scale to hundreds of thousands of people. He has worked with numerous startups across the world and has developed products related to various domains like payments, social apps, marketing, games etc.
He is also the author of Kotlin Programming Cookbook.

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- Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2018Format: KindleIt's a great book, it contains a lot of recipes that will help you on your journey as a kotlin developer.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2018Format: KindleI like the variety of recipes, touching all the parts of the Kotlin language, including Anko. What I miss in the book is a little deeper explanation of why things and recipes should be done the way they're done.
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Amazon CustomerReviewed in India on October 12, 20181.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money purchasing this Book
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseBook does stand-up to the Mark, what it talks about.
It doesn't provide proper information about Kotlin language syntax, Data Types, String, Collection & their uses.
In Middle pages contents are not at all proper. Contents are single line vertically running content.
Is there any way for Re-Fund for e-books.

