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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

You're reading from Kotlin Programming Cookbook Explore more than 100 recipes that show how to build robust mobile and web applications with Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Android

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788472142

Length 434 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (2):

Aanand Shekhar Roy

Rashi Karanpuria

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Installation and Working with Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Control Flow

3. Classes and Objects

4. Functions

5. Object-Oriented Programming

6. Collections Framework

7. Handling File Operations in Kotlin

8. Anko Commons and Extension Function

9. Anko Layouts

10. Databases and Dependency Injection

11. Networking and Concurrency

12. Lambdas and Delegates

13. Testing

14. Web Services with Kotlin

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Anko Layouts

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

Setting up Anko library for Anko layouts in Gradle

Creating user-interface programmatically

Working with the old code of XML layouts

Using the provided AnkoComponent interface

Setting theme for Android views in Anko

Setting layout parameters for Anko views

Adding listeners to Anko views
Inserting XML layouts into DSL
Converting XML files into DSL
Showing Snackbar
Showing Toasts
Accessing views using synthetic properties
Accessing views of view groups using extension functions

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Authors (2)

Aanand Shekhar Roy

Aanand Shekhar Roy

Aanand Shekhar Roy is an Android developer working for Joist in Toronto, Canada. His mobile engineering career includes working for various startups and companies, such as U.S.-based startups Consciously.Life, PushCoin, and NextFan-FantasyIndyCar. He is also a mentor for the Associate Android Developer Fast Track program by Google on Udacity and mentors a team of 20 software developers.

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