Programming Kotlin

by Venkat Subramaniam

TOC | Early Praise for Programming Kotlin 👉

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

• Who Is This Book For?
• What’s in This Book?
• Kotlin and Java Versions Used in This Book
• How to Read the Code Examples
• Online Resources

1. Hello Kotlin

• Reasons to Love Kotlin
• Why Should You Choose Kotlin?
• Taking Kotlin for a Ride
• Compile to Bytecode and Run
• Compiling to Other Targets
• Which Option to Choose?
• Wrapping Up
• Part I. Scripting with Kotlin

2. Kotlin Essentials for the Java Eyes

• Less Typing
• Sensible Warnings
• Prefer val over var
• Improved Equality Check
• String Templates
• Raw Strings
• More Expressions, Fewer Statements
• Wrapping Up

3. Working with Functions

• Creating Functions
• Default and Named Arguments
• vararg and Spread
• Destructuring
• Wrapping Up

4. External Iteration and Argument Matching

• Range and Iteration
• Iterating over Arrays and Lists
• When It’s Time to Use when
• Wrapping Up

5. Using Collections

• Flavors of Collections
• Using Pair and Triple
• Arrays of Objects and Primitives
• Using List
• Using Set
• Using Map
• Wrapping Up

6. Type Safety to Save the Day

• Any and Nothing Classes
• Nullable References
• Type Checking and Casting
• Explicit Type Casting
• Generics: Variance and Constraints of Parametric Types