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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin
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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

by Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
370 pages
9h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Calling the Kotlin function

Now create two functions in Kotlin, add and addAndReturn. The add function takes two integer variables, adds them, and prints them on the screen, while addAndReturn adds two values and returns the result:

fun add(a : Int, b : Int) {    println("Result of $a + $b is ${a+b}")}fun addAndReturn(i: Int, j: Int): Int {    return i + j}

We can call each Kotlin function by using the filename as a reference. CallKotlin.kt is a file that contains a Kotlin function. When calling a Kotlin function in the Java file, it is important to remember that we must add the kt keyword with the Kotlin filename to call our desired function. For example, we can call the add function by using CallKotlinKt.add. See the following example of the ...

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ISBN: 9781789617726