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Mastering Kotlin

Mastering Kotlin

By : Nate Ebel
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Mastering Kotlin

Mastering Kotlin

2.7 (3)
By: Nate Ebel

Overview of this book

Using Kotlin without taking advantage of its power and interoperability is like owning a sports car and never taking it out of the garage. While documentation and introductory resources can help you learn the basics of Kotlin, the fact that it’s a new language means that there are limited learning resources and code bases available in comparison to Java and other established languages. This Kotlin book will show you how to leverage software designs and concepts that have made Java the most dominant enterprise programming language. You’ll understand how Kotlin is a modern approach to object-oriented programming (OOP). This book will take you through the vast array of features that Kotlin provides over other languages. These features include seamless interoperability with Java, efficient syntax, built-in functional programming constructs, and support for creating your own DSL. Finally, you will gain an understanding of implementing practical design patterns and best practices to help you master the Kotlin language. By the end of the book, you'll have obtained an advanced understanding of Kotlin in order to be able to build production-grade applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Kotlin – A Modern Solution to Application Development
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Section 2: Putting the Pieces Together – Modeling Data, Managing State, and Application Architecture
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Section 3: Play Nice – Integrating Kotlin With Existing Code
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Section 4: Go Beyond – Exploring Advanced and Experimental Language Features
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Section 5: The Wide World of Kotlin – Using Kotlin across the Entire Development Stack

Revisiting the Builder pattern in Kotlin

The Builder pattern is an object creation pattern for creating instances of classes that have a large number of potential optional parameters. For classes like these, with many optional parameters, we could rely on a Builder class to provide an improved API for constructing instances of the class. This API enables us to build different representations of our class using a common API.

In this section, we'll explore both what a traditional Builder might look like and how Kotlin enables us to simplify our concept of a Builder in many cases by leveraging default parameter values and named arguments.

Understanding the Builder pattern

The Builder pattern helps us to configure different...

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