Advanced Kotlin (The Course)
Course Info
This course includes 1 attempt.
This course focuses on the advanced aspects of Kotlin's development, including generic variance modifiers, delegation, multiplatform programming, annotation processing, KSP, and compiler plugins.
These are often features and tools that developers use daily, even though they don’t know exactly how they work. This course explains them and gives you the knowledge to use these features in your projects.
Course Material
- Notes about the course
- Project with exercises
- Generic variance modifiers
- List variance
- Consumer variance
- Function types
- Exercise: Usage of generic types
- The Covariant Nothing Object
- The Covariant Nothing Object
- The Covariant Nothing Class
- Variance modifier limitations
- Variance modifier limitations
- UnsafeVariance annotation
- Variance modifier positions
- Star projection
- Summary
- Exercise: Generic Response
- Exercise: Generic Consumer
- Interface delegation
- The delegation pattern
- Delegation and inheritance
- Kotlin interface delegation support
- Wrapper classes
- The decorator pattern
- Intersection types
- Limitations
- Conflicting elements from parents
- Summary
- Exercise: ApplicationScope
- Property delegation
- How property delegation works
- Other
getValue
andsetValue
parameters - Implementing a custom property delegate
- Provide a delegate
- Property delegates in Kotlin stdlib
- The
notNull
delegate - Exercise: Lateinit delegate
- The
lazy
delegate - The
lazy
delegate - Exercise: Blog Post Properties
- The
observable
delegate - The
observable
delegate - The
vetoable
delegate - A map as a delegate
- A map as a delegate
- Review of how variables work
- Summary
- Exercise: Mutable lazy delegate
- Kotlin Contracts
- The meaning of a contract
- How many times do we invoke a function from an argument?
- Implications of the fact that a function has returned a value
- Using contracts in practice
- Summary
- Exercise: Coroutine time measurement
- Part 2: Kotlin on different platforms
- Java interoperability
- Nullable types
- Kotlin type mapping
- JVM primitives
- Collection types
- Annotation targets
- Annotation targets
- Static elements
- JvmField
- Using Java accessors in Kotlin
- JvmName
- JvmName
- JvmMultifileClass
- JvmOverloads
- Unit
- Unit
- Function types and function interfaces
- Tricky names
- Throws
- JvmRecord
- Summary
- Exercise: Adjust Kotlin for Java usage
- Using Kotlin Multiplatform
- Multiplatform module configuration
- Expect and actual elements
- Possibilities
- Multiplatform libraries
- Multiplatform libraries
- A multiplatform mobile application
- A multiplatform mobile application
- ViewModel class
- Platform-specific classes
- Observing properties
- Summary
- Exercise: Multiplatform LocalDateTime
- JavaScript interoperability
- Setting up a project
- Using libraries available for Kotlin/JS
- Using Kotlin/JS
- Building and linking a package
- Distributing a package to npm
- Exposing objects
- Exposing Flow and StateFlow
- Adding npm dependencies
- Frameworks and libraries for Kotlin/JS
- JavaScript and Kotlin/JS limitations
- Summary
- Exercise: Migrating a Kotlin/JVM project to KMP
- Part 3: Metaprogramming
- Reflection
- Hierarchy of classes
- Function references
- Parameter references
- Property references
- Class reference
- Class reference
- Serialization example
- Referencing types
- Referencing types
- Type reflection example: Random value
- Kotlin and Java reflection
- Breaking encapsulation
- Summary
- Exercise: Function caller
- Exercise: Object serialization to JSON
- Exercise: Object serialization to XML
- Exercise: DSL-based dependency injection library
- Annotation processing
- Your first annotation processor
- Hiding generated classes
- Summary
- Exercise: Annotation Processing execution measurement wrapper
- Kotlin Symbol Processing
- Your first KSP processor
- Testing KSP
- Dependencies and incremental processing
- Multiple rounds processing
- Using KSP on multiplatform projects
- Summary
- Exercise: KSP execution measurement wrapper
- Kotlin Compiler Plugins
- Compiler frontend and backend
- Compiler extensions
- Popular compiler plugins
- Making all classes open
- Changing a type
- Generate function wrappers
- Example plugin implementations
- Summary
- Static Code Analysers
- What are Static Analysers?
- Types of analysers
- Formatters
- Code Quality Analysers
- Data-Flow Analysers
- Code Manipulation
- Embedded vs Standalone
- Kotlin Code Analysers
- Kotlin Compiler
- IntelliJ IDEA
- ktlint
- ktfmt
- Android Lint
- detekt
- Setting up detekt
- detekt Rules and Rulesets
- Configuring detekt
- Incremental Adoption
- Writing your first detekt Rule
- Setting up your rule project
- Coding your rule
- Using your rule
- Rules with type resolution
- Conclusion
- Exercise solutions
Instructors
Marcin Moskala is an experienced developer and Kotlin trainer. He is the founder of the Kt. Academy, Kotlin GDE, an official JetBrains partner for teaching Kotlin, and author of the books Effective Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, and Android Development with Kotlin.
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