Learn Kotlin for Android Development

Peter Späth

ISBN 10: 1484244664 / ISBN 13: 9781484244661

Published by Apress, Apress Mai 2019, 2019

About this Item

Neuware -Build Android apps and learn the essentials of the popular Kotlin programming language and APIs. This book will teach you the key Kotlin skills and techniques important for creating your very own Android apps. Apart from introducing Kotlin programming, Learn Kotlin for Android Development stresses clean code principles and introduces object-oriented and functional programming as a starting point for developing Android apps.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 532 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learn Kotlin for Android Development
• Publisher: Apress, Apress Mai 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484244664
• ISBN 13: 9781484244661
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 254W x 178H x 29D millimeters 254 millimeters width by 178 millimeters height by 29 millimeters depth
• Weight: 989 grams

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Synopsis

Build Android apps and learn the essentials of the popular Kotlin programming language and APIs. This book will teach you the key Kotlin skills and techniques important for creating your very own Android apps. Apart from introducing Kotlin programming, Learn Kotlin for Android Development stresses clean code principles and introduces object-oriented and functional programming as a starting point for developing Android apps. 

After reading and using this book, you'll have a foundation to take away and apply to your own Kotlin-based Android app development. You'll be able to write useful and efficient Kotlin-based apps for Android, using most of the features Kotlin as a language has to offer. 

What You Will Learn

• Build your first Kotlin app that runs on Android
  
• Work with Kotlin classes and objects for Android
  
• Use constructs, loops, decisions, and scopes 
  
• Carry out operations on data 
  
• Master data containers, arrays, and collections
  
• Handle exceptions and access external libraries
  

Who This Book Is For

Very little programming experience is required: no prior knowledge of Kotlin needed.  

About the Author

Peter Späth consults, trains/teaches and writes books on various subjects, with a primary focus on software development. With a wealth of experience in Java-related languages, the release of Kotlin for building Android Apps made him enthusiastic about writing books for Kotlin development in the Android environment. He also graduated in 2002 as a physicist and soon afterward became an IT consultant, mainly for Java related projects.