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Ted HagosLearn Android Studio 3 with Kotlinhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3907-0_5

5. Lambdas and Higher Order Functions

Ted Hagos1 
(1)
Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines
 
What we’ll cover:

  • Higher order functions

  • Lambda

  • Closures

  • With and apply

In Chapter 2, we discussed the mechanics of Kotlin functions, and you’ve already seen how similar they are to Java functions; you’ve also seen how different they are. In this chapter, we’ll get back to the discussion of functions, but a different kind of function—the kind that supports functional programming. You may have used lambdas in Java 8; similarly, Kotlin also has support for lambdas. In this chapter, we’ll explore these two topics.

Higher Order Functions

Higher order functions ...

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