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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners
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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

by John Horton
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
698 pages
15h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using inheritance with open classes

Some terminology that would be useful to learn at this point is that the class that is inherited from is known as the super or base class. Other common ways to refer to this relationship is parent and child class. The child class inherits from the parent class.

By default, a class cannot be inherited from. It is called a final class – not open for extending or inheriting from. It is very straightforward, however, to change a class so it can be inherited from. All we need to do is add the open keyword to the class declaration.

Basic inheritance examples

Look at this next code, which uses the open keyword with the class declaration and enables the class to be inherited from:

open class Soldier() { fun shoot () { Log.i("Action","Bang ...
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