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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.

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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

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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.

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