Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How to do it…

Let's follow these steps to understand how to make a network request in Kotlin:

1. Making a network request in Kotlin is straightforward with simple syntax. Here's how you would read data over the internet in Kotlin:

val response = URL("<api_request>").readText()

2. That's it! Remember that this is equivalent to Java code when making a network request:

// 1. Declare a URL ConnectionURL url = new URL("http://www.google.com");HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();// 2. Open InputStream to connectionconn.connect();InputStream in = conn.getInputStream();// 3. Download and decode the string response using builderStringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new ...