Kotlin Programming By Example

Enhance your Kotlin programming skills by building 3 real-world applicationsKey FeaturesBuild three full-fledged, engaging applications from scratch and learn to deploy themEnhance your app development and programming activities with Kotlin's powerful and intuitive tools and utilities.Experience the [...]
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Enhance your Kotlin programming skills by building 3 real-world applicationsKey FeaturesBuild three full-fledged, engaging applications from scratch and learn to deploy themEnhance your app development and programming activities with Kotlin's powerful and intuitive tools and utilities.Experience the gentle learning curve, expressiveness, and intuitiveness of Kotlin, as you develop your own applicationsBook DescriptionKotlin greatly reduces the verbosity of source code. With Google having announced their support for Kotlin as a first-class language for writing Android apps, now's the time learn how to create apps from scratch with KotlinKotlin Programming By Example takes you through the building blocks of Kotlin, such as functions and classes. You'll explore various features of Kotlin by building three applications of varying complexity. For a quick start to Android development, we look at building a classic game, Tetris, and elaborate on object-oriented programming in Kotlin. Our next application will be a messenger app, a level up in terms of complexity. Before moving onto the third app, we take a look at data persistent methods, helping us learn about the storage and retrieval of useful applications. Our final app is a place reviewer: a web application that will make use of the Google Maps API and Place Picker.By the end of this book, you will have gained experience of of creating and deploying Android applications using Kotlin.What you will learnLearn the building blocks of the Kotlin programming languageDevelop powerful RESTful microservices for Android applicationsCreate reactive Android applications efficientlyImplement an MVC architecture pattern and dependency management using KotlinCentralize, transform, and stash data with LogstashSecure applications using Spring SecurityDeploy Kotlin microservices to AWS and Android applications to the Play StoreWho this book is forThis book is for those who are new to Kotlin or are familiar with the basics, having dabbled with Java until now. Basic programming knowledge is mandatory.