Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Classical Patterns

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Kotlin

Technical requirements

Basic language syntax and features

Multi-paradigm language

Understanding Kotlin code structure

Naming conventions

Packages

Comments

Hello Kotlin

Understanding types

Basic types

Type inference

Values

Comparison and equality

Declaring functions

Null safety

Reviewing Kotlin data structures

Lists

Sets

Maps

Mutability

Alternative implementations for collections

Arrays

Control flow

The if expression

The when expression

Working with text

String interpolation

Multiline strings

Loops

for-each loop

The for loop

The while loop

Classes and inheritance

Classes

Interfaces

Abstract classes

Visibility modifiers

Inheritance

Data classes

Extension ...