Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How to do it…

In the following steps, we will add Anko to our project:

1. We can add all Anko features and components in one go by adding the following line to our build.gradle dependencies:

// Ankocompile "org.jetbrains.anko:anko:$anko_version"

Here, $anko_version is the latest version of Anko. You can replace it with the latest version of Anko at this time.

2. After that, sync your build.gradle file. Now, Anko dependencies have been added to your project. Let's check this by simply using Anko commons to create and show an alert dialog. Create a button in your activity by defining it in your XML layout and adding onClickListener on it, clicking on which should run the following code:

alert("This is my message from alert dialog", "An Alert!" ...