Learn Kotlin for Android Development

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

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Your First Kotlin Application: 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

Chapter 8: Exceptions: If Something Goes Wrong

Chapter 9: Data Containers

Chapter 10: True, False, and Undecided: Nullability

Chapter 11: Handling Equality

Chapter 12: Back to Math: Funct ional Programming

Chapter 13: About Type Safety: Generics

Chapter 14: Adding Hints: Annotations

Chapter 15: Using the Java and Kotlin APls

Chapter 16: The Collections API

Chapter 17: More APls

Chapter 18: Working in Parallel: Multithreading

Chapter 19: Using External Libraries

Chapter 20: XML and JSON

Who This Book Is For

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