December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 38m
English
book
Programming Android with Kotlin
by Pierre-Olivier Laurence, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez, Mike Dunn, G. Blake Meike
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Preface
JetBrains created Kotlin for two reasons: there was no language that filled all the gaps in Android development using (legacy) Java libraries, and a new language would allow Android development to set trends, rather than just follow them.
In February 2015, Kotlin 1.0 was officially announced. Kotlin is concise, safe, pragmatic, and focused on interoperability with Java code. It can be used everywhere Java is used today: for server-side development, Android apps, desktop or portable clients, IoT device programming, and much, much more. Kotlin gained popularity among Android developers quite rapidly, and Google’s decision to adopt Kotlin as the official language of Android development resulted in skyrocketing interest in the language. According to the Android Developers website, more than 60% of professional Android developers currently use Kotlin.
The learning curve in Android is rather steep: admittedly, it’s hard to learn and harder to master. Part of the Android developer “upbringing,” for many, is to be exposed over time to unintended interactions between the Android operating system and the application. This book intends to bring those kinds of exposures to readers in depth and up close by examining such problems in Android. We’ll talk not only about Kotlin and Java, but also about the concurrency problems that arise when using Android and how Kotlin is able to solve them.
We will sometimes compare Kotlin to Java when we believe doing so provides better insight (especially ...
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