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Kotlin for Java Developers

You're reading from   Kotlin for Java Developers Confidently transition from Java to Kotlin through hands-on examples and idiomatic Kotlin practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835884829
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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José Dimas Luján Castillo José Dimas Luján Castillo
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Kotlin
2. An Introduction to Kotlin and Its Basic Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Interoperability, Gradle, and Maven 4. Null and Non-Nullable Types 5. Extension Functions and the Apply Function 6. Object-Oriented Programming
7. Object-Oriented Programming Basics 8. Generics and Variance 9. Data and Sealed Classes 10. Functional Programming
11. Basics of Functional Programming 12. Lambda 13. Collections and Sequences 14. Coroutines, Testing and DSLs
15. Coroutines 16. Synchronous and Asynchronous Programming 17. Kotlin Testing 18. Domain-Specific Languages in Kotlin 19. Unlock Your Book’s Exclusive Benefits 20. Other Books You May Enjoy 21. Index

Kotlin getters and setters

Getters and setters are a similar case to what happens with the primary constructor when it is used by default. This means that by default, we don’t have to do anything extra. Kotlin creates the code for us; we just have to know that it exists in order to use it. get and set are generated, which reduces the use of code when creating the base of our project. We don’t have to do anything and already have the corresponding Get and Set methods.

We have already seen the Java code of the Book class. Let’s make the equivalent code with get and set and a constructor in Kotlin:

class Book(var title: String, var author: String, var isbn: String, var pages: Int)

In this example, we can see the great advantage of Kotlin. In a single line, we are doing what we did before, but using fewer lines. Let’s break this down to make it clearer:

  • We are defining a Book class.
  • We place a primary constructor when placing properties...
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